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.
A team of researchers from the California Academy of Sciences recently reported soot forming wildfires filled the sky and blocked the Sun shortly after an asteroid hit the Earth.