James Webb Space Telescope successfully deployed its gimbaled antenna assembly on December 26, one day after its Christmas launch from French Guiana spaceport.
Drug cancer cell treatment, Doxil, manufactured by Ayana Pharma, was launched a week ago, to the International Space Station, as part of the mission of SpaceX.
More space tourists flew to orbit this year in different ways. The story is only getting started. In 2021, mankind outdid itself by becoming bolder and exploring further than anybody had anticipated.
NASA is hoping theologians, specifically at the Center for Theological Inquiry (CTI) in Princeton, New Jersey, will have the answer to the question of how humans are going to react to reports that "intelligent life" does exist on other planets.
A new geological study confirmed that the black rocky glass shards in the Atacama Desert were produced by something outside of the deep cosmos 12,000 years ago.
As the year draws to a close, NASA astronauts greeted folks on the ground on Christmas Day by sharing some of the greatest images from the International Space Station.
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has opened its "eye" and returned its first photographs from orbit just two weeks after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Webb has been called a "Hubble replacement" but NASA prefers to call it the "scientific successor" to the latter from which its goals were driven by results from the former.