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Washington : The James Webb Space Telescope is nearing completion of the first phase of the months-long process of aligning the observatory's 18-segmented primary mirror.The alignment was done using the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam)…

Washington : NASA's Perseverance rover has successfully completed the first year since touching down on Mars on February 18, 2021.Weighing roughly 1,025 kgs, Perseverance is the heaviest rover ever to safely land on Mars, and also return…

Washington : US space agency NASA has released the first science images from its new Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer IXPE that was launched on December 9, 2021.NASA said that all instruments are functioning well aboard the observatory,…

Washington : NASA has unveiled first images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) which represents early stages of the telescope's 18 main mirror segments properly aligning.This image mosaic was created by pointing the telescope…

Washington : NASA has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Space to build rockets to help retrieve samples from Mars.The Colorado-based company will build the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), a small, lightweight rocket to launch rock, sediment,…

Washington : The International Space Station (ISS) will continue its operations until 2030 and will plunge into the most remote point in the Pacific Ocean in 2031, NASA confirmed in a new transition plan released this week.According to the…

Washington: It is commonly believed that water on Mars evaporated about 3 billion years ago.But two scientists studying data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found signs of liquid water on the Red Planet as recently as 2 billion to…

Jerusalem : Israel has signed the Artemis Accords and joined the US-led programme to land human beings on the Moon by 2025 and later on Mars, the Israel Space Agency (ISA) said.The agreement, signed by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and ISA…

Washington : NASA's next-generation James Webb telescope, which travelled about 1 million miles from Earth, has reached its final destination.But, the science operations are expected to begin only in late June or early July, Space.com…

Washington : NASA's revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope has reached the final orbit in space on Tuesday, after a month of space travel.A joint effort with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Canadian Space Agency, the Webb mission was…