From the first satellite in orbit, to the first human in space, to the first steps on the moon, the United States government has always framed space exploration as a race. As U.S.-China space ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has been traveling through space since its launch on December 25, 2021, and will soon face the next crucial step in its mission, performing an orbital burn to insert ...

Reliably guiding and capturing optical waves is central to the functioning of various contemporary technologies, including communication and information processing systems. The most conventional ...

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On Oct. 16, if all goes well, NASA will launch a Discovery-class space probe dubbed “Lucy” on a 12-year journey to visit the Trojan asteroids, which are clustered around two of the Jupiter-Sun ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is approaching its new home ...

If you’re a science-fiction fan, and probably even if you’re not, you must have some idea of how interplanetary space travel could work. For years concepts like warp drives and wormholes have been ...

For decades, the staggering cost of escaping Earth's gravity has limited our reach into space. Sending just one kilogram into orbit can run tens of thousands of dollars. Costs climb even higher for ...

Mathematically, Lagrange points are solutions to what is called the “restricted three-body problem.” Any two massive, gravitationally significant objects in space generate five specific locations – ...

An astronomer has captured an image of the James Webb Space Telescope after it reached its destination almost 1 million miles away from Earth. Webb is currently located at what's known as the second ...

Physicists have discovered a tiny asteroid, about one kilometer wide, that is locked into the same orbit as Earth—only the second such cosmic body of its type that has been identified to date. And now ...