Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope neared its gravitational parking space on Monday in orbit around the sun, almost 1.6 million kilometres from Earth.
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Nasa has embarked on a months-long, painstaking process of bringing its newly launched James Webb Space Telescope into focus.
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.
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.
The quartet of newly minted citizen astronauts splashed down in the Atlantic on Saturday, completing a three-day flight of the first all-civilian crew ever sent into Earth orbit.
The International Space Station was thrown briefly out of control on Thursday when jet thrusters of a newly arrived Russian research module inadvertently fired a few hours after it was docked to the orbiting outpost.
Why spend so much time and money on this one planet when there are at least seven others in our solar system, more than 200 moons, countless asteroids and much more besides?
China will send three astronauts into orbit on Thursday in a high-stakes mission, the first of four crewed space flights to complete the country’s space station by the end of next year.
For decades, the exploration of our solar system left one of our neighbouring planets, Venus, largely unexplored. Things are about to change.