NASA says the $10 billion observatory checked out 7 of its 17 instrument modes for science operations. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

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The Webb team has now approved 10 out of 17 science instrument modes; since last week we added (14) MIRI imaging, (2) NIRCam wide-field slitless spectroscopy, and our final NIRISS mode, (10) ...

An unstable gyroscope has forced NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to enter safe mode, resulting in a temporary suspension of its scientific observations. Reading time 2 minutes NASA is addressing an ...

In recent decades, drag-free satellites have been used in high-precision missions, such as testing the general relativity, verifying the geodetic and frame-dragging effects, measuring Earth’s gravity ...