In a rare "time-critical" decision, the James Webb Space Telescope will study the true size of the "potentially hazardous" ...

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After receiving feedback from nearly 500 people about revising NOAA's Space Weather Scales, scientists continue to assess ...

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...

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