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24 sty 2023 · Top 10 space stories of 2022. Last year kicked off the era of JWST, while astronomers mapped out the next decade of discovery and released some of the first results from the Hayabusa2 mission...
24 gru 2022 · We've picked out 12 of the top stories in spaceflight below that helped define 2022, with news flowing from multiple worlds across the solar system. Related: The top 10 views of Earth from...
29 gru 2022 · New satellites continue to crowd the sky — and they’re getting brighter, not fainter. Light pollution, too, continues to grow. Here, we look back at the biggest news stories of the year.
27 gru 2022 · This year, humankind glimpsed the universe in ways that were never before possible, and space missions took unprecedented leaps forward in unraveling the mysteries of the cosmos.
15 gru 2022 · Editors of the journal Science selected the James Webb Space Telescope from a pool of candidates, which also included NASA's asteroid-deflection mission DART, as the Science Breakthrough of...
15 gru 2022 · New perils came during the telescope’s monthlong, 1.5-million-kilometer journey into space, as its giant sunshield unfurled and its golden mirror blossomed. Engineers ticked off a total of 344 critical steps—any one of which could have doomed the mission had they gone wrong.
13 gru 2022 · NASA launched its mega Moon rocket for the first time, sending its uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon; kicked off a new era in astronomy with the Webb Space Telescope’s record-breaking new imagery from the cosmos; moved an asteroid in humanity’s first ever planetary defense demonstration; working with its partners, sent astronauts on ...
