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Our host star takes center stage, and JWST demands a little more patience.

Jason Davis

NASA’s long-awaited, greatly anticipated observatory has blasted off on a mission to revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos.

Casey Dreier

A massive space telescope to search for signs of life on hundreds of Earth-like exoplanets is the official recommendation of the U.S. astronomy community.

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The values that have driven space exploration since its beginnings are still going strong today.

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Looking at where you came from, and seeking your opinions.

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In celebration of Halloween, take a terrifying tour through our creepy cosmos.

Casey Dreier

Find annual expenditures, charts, and comparisons for NASA's expenditures on the James Webb Space Telescope, including contributions from the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency over the same period.

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The realities of space go beyond what we can see, and perhaps even beyond what we can imagine.

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Everything you need to know about NASA’s Lucy mission to the Trojan asteroids.

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Look at some extraordinary views from space and imagine what you’d see if you had the best seat on SpaceX’s Dragon capsule.

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The newest issue of The Planetary Report takes a look at the James Webb Space Telescope and what it will teach us about the cosmos.

Nancy Atkinson

Webb is the largest, most powerful, most complex and most expensive space telescope ever built.

Kate Howells

How space advocates came to the rescue of the Hubble Space Telescope in 2004.

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What can we learn from patterns in the Martian sands? And what’s that Earth-like planet over there?

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Saturn’s icy moon invites further study, and The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 spacecraft celebrates an anniversary.

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Reminisce about the influential Viking missions, picture seeing your all-time favorites on your wall, and get excited for what’s to come.

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Jupiter’s cyclones are beautiful, and the Sun’s storms and flares are a little bit scary.

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When we look at our planet, look for life, or direct a rover to look at itself, we see ourselves in new ways.

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Squid, mice, and stuffed animals may seem like Earthlings, but this week they’re coming to you from space.

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China’s Zhurong Mars rover snaps a selfie and gets a bird’s-eye-view pic from above, and asteroid hunters of all kinds look out for dangerous rocks.