James Webb Space Telescope locks onto guide star in crucial milestone | NASA's InSight Mars lander bounces back from dust storm, but its days are numbered | Scientists spot 10,000th medium near-Earth asteroid in planetary defense milestone
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The James Webb Space Telescope locked onto its main navigation star with its Fine Guidance Sensor for the first time. The instrument is key to keeping the space telescope pointed in the right direction.
The detection comes as part of NASA's ongoing planetary defense work, which discovers and monitors space rocks in the inner solar system to assure that no large asteroid is on course to impact Earth.
A Russian Progress 80 cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station early Thursday, delivering nearly 3 tons of supplies and equipment to the orbiting lab.
The Chandra X-ray Observatory, which has studied the X-ray universe since 1999, suffered a power supply problem with its High Resolution Camera instrument on Feb. 9, leading the mission team to halt science observations for now.
The Imperial Light Cruiser isn't quite as iconic as the other Imperial ships yet, having only been introduced to us in Season 2 of The Mandalorian, but it's a stunning ship and Lego has done a stellar job of creating its Lego counterpart.
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When you're out exploring the universe, what kind of music should you listen to? It's hard to pick favorites and even more difficult to build a list of suggestions, but we've done our best with this curated playlist to rock out in space.
