Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Space.com. Formerly, she was the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics ...

Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how galaxies formed in the early universe.

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