Colossal Webb telescope completes a phenomenal feat in space
A profoundly successful day for cosmic science.
By Mark Kaufman
NASA Mars rover's mission interrupted by Elmo's nemesis: A small rock.
Is there viral Twitter on Mars?
Amazed scientists watched a giant star explode for the first time
Like a "ticking time bomb."
By Mark Kaufman
Why NASA's James Webb telescope Twitter account blocked other NASA Twitter accounts
All for a science joke.
Why Webb's unassuming secondary mirror makes it a telescope
The tire-size, little-mirror-that-could is open, earning Webb the title of telescope.
Looking for new James Webb telescope pictures? You'll have to wait.
The most powerful telescope ever launched into space doesn't have its own surveillance cameras. That's intentional.
Stunning spiral galaxies and glittering stars are among Hubble's stellar 2021 photos
The Hubble showed us stellar sights in 2021.
If the Webb telescope sunshield doesn't open, here’s what NASA will do
The upcoming deployment has been described as the riskiest part of the mission.
Extraordinary James Webb telescope successfully blasts into space
The most powerful space telescope ever built will let us "look back in time."
By Mark Kaufman
How to watch one of the most nail-biting launches in NASA history
We'll see unprecedented things.
By Mark Kaufman
Perseverance's most outta-this-world images of 2021
Perseverence captured Mars in all its glory. And took some selfies, too.
By Rachel Kraus
How the powerful Webb telescope will peer 13 billion years back in time
Through it, we can observe the birth of the first stars and galaxies to form after the Big Bang.
By Emmett Smith
A spacecraft ‘touched’ the sun. Here’s how it survived.
This NASA probe became a trailblazer without burning up.
Dramatic NASA video shows James Webb telescope's extremely ambitious space maneuver
The "most complex sequence of deployments ever attempted in a single space mission."
By Mark Kaufman
NASA shared some extraordinary new sights and sounds from Jupiter orbit
Now you can hear what the moon Ganymede sounds like.
Stunning views of the James Webb telescope before it's blasted into space
It'll observe far-off cosmic objects other telescopes can't see
By Mark Kaufman
SpaceX doctor finally gets his shot to be a NASA astronaut
The physician with the dragon tattoo.
NASA's tough spacecraft dives into the sun's atmosphere, captures wild footage
An unprecedented journey.
By Mark Kaufman
NASA's Perseverance rover beamed back postcard-worthy views of Mars
Insta-worthy views of the Martian wastes.
8 extraordinary space moments that made headlines in 2021
Capt. Kirk boldly goes into space for real, NASA flies a drone on Mars, and more.
NASA's deep space satellite captures the dark shadow of an eclipse on Earth
An eerie dark blotch.
By Mark Kaufman
NASA filmed a magical, eerie eclipse in Antarctica. You can watch it.
It's a rare, wondrous event.
By Mark Kaufman
