The European Space Agency is developing a spacecraft structure that can detect its own damage and repair itself in orbit, a ...

A high-speed dust-size micrometeoroid slammed into one of the James Webb Space Telescope's 18 primary mirror segments last month, causing a slight but noticeable effect on the segment's performance, ...

Russian space agency Roscosmos plans to launch a replacement spacecraft to the ISS so two cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut can get home safely Shafiq Najib is a former writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope sustained minor damage to its primary mirrors from a micrometeoroid impact between May 23 and 25. Despite the impact being larger than initially tested for, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Don’t panic! But sometime between May 23 and 25, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope was hit by a micrometeoroid, a tiny piece of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A high-speed dust-size micrometeoroid slammed into one of the James Webb Space Telescope's 18 primary mirror segments last month, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope sustained a dust-sized micrometeoroid impact to a primary mirror segment. The impact occurred between May 23 and 25. NASA assured that the $10 billion telescope is still ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — NASA says its new James Webb Space Telescope is still operating beyond mission requirements despite being smacked by an object likely about the size of a piece of dust. In a ...

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Micrometeoroid strikes are an unavoidable aspect of operating any spacecraft. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was engineered to withstand continual bombardment from these dust-sized particles moving ...