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Mission to rescue NASA telescope is spinning out of control, and engineers are racing to fix it

Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft is recovering from an unexpected spin in orbit, and will need a little more time to rescue ...

A discarded SpaceX rocket is on a high-speed collision course with the moon

Space tracking expert Bill Gray predicts an impact of 5,400 mph (8,700 kph) — seven times the speed of sound — near Einstein Crater on the moon’s sunlit western limb. With the action unfolding in the ...
Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

First AI-Driven Telescope Goes Stargazing

A new system developed by a team with Professor Aravindan Vijayaraghavan successfully schedules observations on a major ...

Ancient mummy DNA provides scientific evidence that colonization brought smallpox to the Americas

Now there’s scientific evidence for the spread: An analysis of Chilean mummies provides the strongest genetic link yet to the ...

'It's going to do things that currently are impossible': The Roman Space Telescope, NASA's next great obser...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope is ready to launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Aug. 30. It'll map the entire sky like ...

ASTEROID (44) NYSA MAY BE THE FIRST-KNOWN THREE-LOBED WORLD

Previously unknown moon orbiting Nysa is also detected. FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., July 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- An international team ...

NASA's new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is about to launch. Here's why it's so cool.

"We're going to find one-in-a-million things over and over and over again," a NASA scientist recently predicted.
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Rescue mission to save NASA’s Swift space telescope is imperiled in orbit

A private spacecraft launched to boost the decaying orbit of NASA’s Swift Observatory is now suffering from potentially ...

Private mission to rescue NASA’s aging telescope runs into its own trouble

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The spacecraft rushing to the rescue of an aging and sinking NASA telescope has run into its own ...

NASA’s Roman space telescope should reveal 'one-in-a-million' discoveries

Scheduled to launch Aug. 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, NASA's Roman telescope will image far more sky than Hubble ...

How NASA plans to build the Habitable Worlds Observatory

We've been covering the journey of the Habitable Worlds Observatory for some time now. Over the past few years, it's gone ...
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Astronomers find a needle in a haystack 18,000 light-years away

Astronomers used the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to find a stellar black hole in a globular cluster roughly 18,000 light-years away from Earth. Credit: ESA / NASA / M. Häberle / J.