
NASA moves ahead with December launch for Hubble successor
NASA cleared engineers to begin fueling the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope for launch December 22.
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NASA cleared engineers to begin fueling the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope for launch December 22.
The module will use a Russian "space tug" to rendezvous with the space station Friday.
The DART mission is intended to test the feasibility of one day deflecting a threatening asteroid.
The New Shepard flight in December will be Blue Origin's third with passengers and its first with a crew of six.
The $330 million DART probe will crash head-on into a small asteroid to test the possibility of averting future threats to Earth.
NASA is assessing the possible impact of a processing incident that jostled the nearly $10 billion telescope.
The moon will move into Earth's shadow for 3 hours and 28 minutes this month.
"We indeed successfully tested our promising system," Russia's defense minister said, while denying that the debris posed a threat to the space station.
The Artemis moon program will cost $93 billion through 2025, according to a new estimate from NASA's Inspector General.
State Department says Russia "recklessly" carried out an anti-satellite missile test, creating a cloud of space debris.
The asteroid only comes close enough to view for a few weeks every April.
SpaceX has now launched 1,844 Starlinks since the first two prototypes were sent up in 2018.
Last month, de Vries launched to space with actor William Shatner and two other crewmates.
Docking at the space station, four astronauts kick off a half-year stay aboard the outpost.
The launch comes just two days after another SpaceX capsule brought four astronauts back to Earth.
In the weeks since President Trump deployed the National Guard to Washington, D.C., violent crime is down vs. the same time last year.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has suspended more than 20 employees who signed an open letter criticizing the agency, multiple sources told CBS News.
Denmark's primary national broadcaster says Americans linked to Trump are carrying out covert influence operations to foment dissent in Greenland.
Last week, Cracker Barrel announced that it was changing its logo to remove the image of a man sitting in a chair leaning against a barrel, and replacing it with a logo that only featured the chain's name.
The wealthiest 400 people in the U.S. pay a tax rate of 24%, lower than the average rate for all other taxpayers, economists find.
The U.S. military detected a Russian spy plane in international airspace off the coast of Alaska on Tuesday, marking the fourth such sighting in one week.
Argentine police raided a villa as part of a hunt for a 17th-century Italian portrait believed looted by a Nazi officer 80 years ago from a Jewish collector that was just spotted in a real estate ad.
Florida has plans to target three to five House seats held by Democrats.
The older brother of Oasis singers Liam and Noel Gallagher, Paul Gallagher, appeared in a London court on rape and sexual assault charges.