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What’s on the James Webb Space Telescope’s ‘to do’ list?
By Jamie Carter published
From ‘cosmic dawn’ to finding ‘Earth 2.0’ the world’s most advanced space observatory is going to have a busy first year.
Webb deployment, Martian flight delays, and more in this week's science news
By John Loeffler published
Roundup While we wait for Webb to make its insertion burn on Monday, Mars Ingenuity Flight 19 was delayed by bad weather, and orcas can be nice sometimes.
Starlink satellites mar a fifth of asteroid-spotting telescope's critical observations
By John Loeffler last updated
SpaceX satellites are now streaking across almost 20% of images taken by a major telescope that's watching for near-Earth asteroids.
The Sun's rings might be why Earth didn't grow into a 'Super-Earth'
By John Loeffler published
"Pressure bumps" in the Sun's accretion disk when the planets were forming 4.5 billion years ago explain a lot about how the solar system developed.
Earth sits in the center of a 'superbubble' ringed by baby stars – now we know why
By John Loeffler published
New research says that our solar system sits in the center of a 1,000-light-year-wide 'superbubble' that was carved out by supernovae, creating star-forming regions along its edge.
'We have a telescope': James Webb Space Telescope's secondary mirror is now in place
By John Loeffler published
NASA announced the successful deployment of the secondary mirror on the James Webb Space Telescope, the latest major milestone passed by the $10 billion telescope.
SETI gets a laser update to help seek out alien life among the stars
By John Loeffler published
The SETI Institute and University of Hawai'i have just installed new equipment on a mountain in East Maui, Hawai'i, that will help scan the night sky for alien communication via lasers.
Mysterious 'cosmic burpers' are shooting out bizarre radio waves from galaxy's core
By John Loeffler published
Strange radio waves emerging from the galaxy's central region are unlike anything scientists have ever seen.
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