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These are the space missions to watch in 2022

SpaceX's 1st orbital Starship launch to space · Private astronauts fly to International Space Station with Axiom Space · Moon landing by Houston's Intuitive Machines · NASA's SLS megarocket launches 1st moon mission · Starliner's second uncrewed test mission.

Why the James Webb Space Telescope's sunshield deployment takes so long

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is three days into the deployment of its massive sunshield — and it still has about three days to go. The $10 billion Webb launched on Christmas Day (Dec. 25) to seek out heat signals from the early universe.

Russia launches heavy-lift Angara rocket on 3rd test flight, but misses intended orbit: reports

A year after its last launch, Russia's newest rocket lifted off again — and things didn't go entirely according to plan. The third test flight of the Angara A5 rocket took off from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia on Monday (Dec. 27).

Skywatcher spots James Webb Space Telescope from Earth in telescope photos

Four days later, on Dec. 29, astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project spotted Webb traveling through space using a robotic telescope. Masi combined some of his imagery into a short ...

Webb telescope spends '29 days on the edge' as it comes to life in space

Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. (CNN) Heading to space was just the beginning for the James Webb Space Telescope.

Meteor showers, eclipses, full moons: All of the reasons to look up in 2022

(CNN) Total lunar eclipses, a multitude of meteor showers and supermoons will light up the sky in 2022. The new year is sure to be a sky-gazer's delight with plenty of ...

Hubble Space Telescope spots star cluster glittering in a nearby galaxy (photo)

NGC 1755 is in good company: the Pleiades is another example of a small stellar cluster.

Cosmic history can explain the properties of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars

The astronomers made use of a spread of simulation to explore different possibilities of inner planet evolution. Our solar system's inner regions are a rare, but possible outcome of that evolution. The results have been published in Nature Astronomy.

Possible chemical leftovers from early Earth sit near the core

Let's take a journey into the depths of the Earth, down through the crust and mantle nearly to the core. We'll use seismic waves to show the way, since they echo through the planet following an earthquake and reveal its internal structure like radar ...

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Huge asteroid will pass Earth safely January 18

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White streak of light at center among white dots denotes asteroid in dark field. Astronomers captured asteroid (7482) 1994 PC1 during a flyby of Earth in 1997. The space rock appears as a trail due to its very fast apparent motion. Image via Sormano ...