From the successful scientific operations of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to the splashdown of the Orion space capsule, 2022 has seen a lot of wins.Here are the biggest moments to remember:Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission successfully altered the…

Eastern Arizona’s Coolidge Dam has reportedly recorded the highest water level in five years. According to Fox 10 Phoenix, rainfall this season has helped raise the water at the dam to over 220,000 acre-feet — the highest mark since March 2017. The station said, citing the U.S.…

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope snapped a pair of “dazzlingly different” images of a brilliant star cluster some 160,000 light years away.Globular cluster NGC 1850, in the constellation Dorado, is approximately 63,000 times the mass of the sun, is 100 million years old and is located…

NASA’s Mars rover, Perseverance, deposited its first sample of rocks on the Red Planet’s surface Wednesday for an eventual return to Earth.The rover placed a titanium tube containing the rock sample as part of NASA’s Mars Sample Return campaign.   The deposit is one of…

NASA officially ended its InSight Mars lander mission on Wednesday after the spacecraft missed two consecutive communication attempts. Power on the lander had been dwindling in recent months as a pair of 7-foot wide solar panels collected dust and an unusually thick atmosphere blocked out the…

U.S. energy officials announced Tuesday that government scientists in California produced the first successful nuclear fusion reaction resulting in net energy gain.”This is what it looks like for America to lead, and we’re just getting started,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said of the “major scientific…