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Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. (NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez)

NASA's new telescope, explained

Chris Impey - The Conversation

View Of Earth's Moon Against The Sky At Night (Getty Images/Alexander Rieber/EyeEm)

Moon telescope could explain dark matter

This mosaic of Bennu was created using observations made by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that was in close proximity to the asteroid for over two years. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona)

Humanity is ready to deflect asteroids

NASA's Perseverance (Mars 2020) stores rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet's surface for future missions to retrieve in the area known as Jezero crater on the planet Mars. (NASA/Getty Images)

Martian mystery of the missing rocks

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A volcano named Sapas Mons dominates this computer-generated view of the surface of Venus. (NASA/JP)

NASA returns to Venus

Paul K. Byrne - The Conversation

Universe, planets and lots of stars (Getty Images)

When will the first space baby be born?

Chris Impey - The Conversation

A NASA image of one of the Voyager space probes. Voyager 1 and its identical sister craft Voyager 2 were launched in 1977 to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space. (NASA/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Voyager 1 hears the "hum" of universe

A full scale model of the experimental Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which will be carried under the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, is displayed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on February 16, 2021 in Pasadena, California. - The Mars exploration rover will search for signs of ancient microbial life and collect rock samples for future return to Earth to study the red planet's geology and climate, paving the way for human exploration. Perseverance also carries the experimental Ingenuity Mars Helicopter - which will attempt the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

First flight on Mars

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An illustration of NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter flying on Mars (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Ingenuity survives night alone on Mars

Perseverance rover on Mars (NASA)

Perseverance sticks its landing on Mars

Mo Brooks and Lauren Boebert (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Lauren Boebert takes on Trump — sort of

Roger Sollenberger

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission readies itself to touch the surface of asteroid Bennu. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona)

NASA craft grabs rocks from asteroid

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In this illustration, WD 1856 b, a potential Jupiter-size planet, orbits its much smaller host star, a dim white dwarf. (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)

A planet that shouldn't exist... does

Elon Musk, and SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft is seen shortly before a scheduled launch at pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. (Photo illustration by Salon/Paul Hennessy/Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media/Saul Martinez/Getty Images)

"Historic" SpaceX launch not so historic

(Getty/Giuseppe Cacace)

U.S. seeks to change Moon mining rules

Scott Shackelford - The Conversation

Janelle Monae, from left, Taraji P. Henson, and Octavia Spencer pose with Katherine Johnson, seated, backstage at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)

7 lessons from Katherine Johnson's life

Della Dumbaugh - The Conversation

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The Infrared Astronomical Satellite, or IRAS, was the first mission to put a telescope in space to survey the sky in infrared. (NASA)

When satellites collide

This computer graphic image provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows two drum-shaped and solar-powered Minerva-II-1 rovers on an asteroid. Japanese unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa2 released two small Minerva-II-1 rovers on the asteroid Ryugu on Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. (JAXA via AP)

Sending robot "skins" to space

Shi En Kim - Massive Science

Mathematics (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-195160p1.html'>Binkski</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

How mathematics can save your life

Dan Falk - Undark

This illustration shows NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft-lander approaching a site on Saturn’s exotic moon, Titan. Taking advantage of Titan’s dense atmosphere and low gravity, Dragonfly will explore dozens of locations across the icy world, sampling and measuring the compositions of Titan's organic surface materials to characterize the habitability of Titan’s environment and investigate the progression of prebiotic chemistry. (NASA/JHU-APL)

Humanity's space travel plans, 2020–2030

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This artist’s impression shows the supergiant star Betelgeuse as it was revealed thanks to different state-of-the-art techniques on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), which allowed two independent teams of astronomers to obtain the sharpest ever views of the supergiant star Betelgeuse. They show that the star has a vast plume of gas almost as large as our Solar System and a gigantic bubble boiling on its surface. These discoveries provide important clues to help explain how these mammoths shed material at such a tremendous rate. (ESO/L. Calçada)

Why Betelgeuse may go supernova

Cookie in space (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why NASA wants to bake cookies in space

Members of the scientific community, environmental advocates, and supporters demonstrate Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017, in Boston, to call attention to what they say are the increasing threats to science and scientific research under the administration of President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) (AP)

Current attacks on science surpass Bush

Elliott Negin - Independent Media Institute

A flooded street after Hurricane Sandy. (Getty/jonathansloane)

Climate scientists: Unpersuasive?

Risa Palm, Toby W. Bolsen - The Conversation

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