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An exclusive interview with Shai Gal, director of Netflix's "Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine" documentary about NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

Read the latest news about NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

A NASA spacecraft is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away

A NASA spacecraft is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away

The truth is out there, and NASA will do science to it – once it finally puts together a committee.

Astronomers anticipated that micrometeoroids would hit the telescope, but the damage caused so far was unexpected

The White House is unveiling the first image from NASA's new space telescope and it's the deepest view of the cosmos ever captured

NEW YORK: On Tuesday morning, NASA will show off the first pictures and data from the new James Webb Space Telescope. That will bring to an end some 30 years and $10 billion of planning, building, testing and innovating, followed by six months of terror, tension and anticipation.

PHILADELPHIA — Since September, the Perseverance rover has been picking along an ancient river delta on Mars, its robotic arms reaching out with whirling steel drill bits to core rocks, scoop soil and suck small amounts of the red planet's atmosphere into titanium tubes.