Nasa has embarked on a months-long, painstaking process of bringing its newly launched James Webb Space Telescope into focus.
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Some cosmologists believe a previous, cold dark empty universe like the one which lies in our far future could have been the source of our very own Big Bang.
The successful launch on Saturday of the James Webb Space Telescope is a timely opportunity to reflect on what previous generations of telescopes have shown us.
If all goes according to plan, the 6.3 tonne instrument will be released from a French-built rocket after a 26-minute ride into space.
Liftoff of Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope, designed to peer further than ever into the universe, has been delayed until Christmas Day.
This newly discovered extreme celestial family shatters assumptions about the type of places where planets can exist.
The International Space Station performed a manoeuvre on Friday to temporarily swerve away from a fragment of a US launch vehicle.
A spacecraft that must ultimately crash to succeed was launched late on Tuesday from California on a Nasa mission to demonstrate the world’s first planetary defence system.
When that city-killing rock comes hurtling towards Earth, the only question anyone will be asking is: Who’s ready to launch?
The International Space Station will perform a brief manoeuvre on Wednesday to dodge a fragment of a defunct Chinese satellite.