Space

Russia says it will pull out of the International Space Station after 2024

6:56am July 27, 2022

by Joe Palca

The head of the Russian space agency has said his country will end its participation in the International Space Station in 2024. What does this mean for the future of its partnership with NASA?

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Russia to quit the ISS after 2024

8:37pm July 26, 2022

by Charles Maynes

Russia says it will pull out of the International Space Station after 2024. This echoes intentions previously set by Russia and comes amid tensions with the U.S. and the West over the war in Ukraine.

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U.S. Space Shuttle Commander Terrence Wilcutt (right) and Mir Commander Anatoly Solovyev hug after opening the hatches between the space shuttle Endeavour and the Russian Space station Mir Saturday, Jan. 24, 1998, in this image from television

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Russia says it will quit the International Space Station after 2024

12:05pm July 26, 2022

by The Associated Press

NASA and other international partners hope to keep the space station running until 2030. Meanwhile, Russia says it will focus on building its own orbiting outpost.

National

Native Hawaiians are concerned by a new telescope slated for the big island

5:04am July 26, 2022

The prospect of a new telescope on Mauna Kea poses a problem for some who believe the Hawaiian volcano is sacred.

NASA engineer Ernie Wright looks on as the first flight-ready mirrors for the James Webb Space Telescope are prepared to undergo testing.

Science

You can find the tech behind the Webb telescope down here on Earth

5:01am July 24, 2022

by Kai McNamee

While the James Webb telescope flies through space, it's done more for us here on Earth than show images of distant galaxies. The tech has also helped improve the vision of eye surgery patients.

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Alt text helps the visually impaired experience the James Webb Telescope images

5:10am July 22, 2022

Visually impaired people can enjoy the celestial images captured by the James Webb Telescope and shared by NASA. A team provided descriptive labels using the alt text feature on social media apps.

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COMIC: How living on Mars time taught me to slow down

5:01am July 22, 2022

NASA engineer Nagin Cox lives on Earth but works on Mars time, where days are longer and time works differently. Her work with the rovers has entirely changed the way she thinks about time on Earth.

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On Earth, NASA tech is all around us

4:25pm July 21, 2022

While NASA's James Webb Space Telescope flies through space, its space technology has done more for people on Earth than you might know about.

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As the first James Webb Space Telescope images appeared in New York's Times Square and everywhere else, scientists got to work diving deep into the data.

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The new science coming from the James Webb telescope has astronomers giddy

5:30am July 21, 2022

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

In the week since the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope were unveiled, astronomers have been poring through all the observations it's made so far--and they're happily overwhelmed.

The James Webb Space Telescope images have been a game changer for astronomers

5:10pm July 20, 2022

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

In the week since the first James Webb Space Telescope images were unveiled, astronomers have been poring over all its observations so far. What they've seen has them giddy.

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