October 2023 Issue

Inside the making of the world’s most powerful telescope

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is transforming astronomy with its groundbreaking discoveries. For 12 years, photographer Chris Gunn documented the complex effort to build it.

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October 2023 Issue

NASA’s Webb telescope is rewriting the story of space and time

How exploring Earth’s dark corners may help NASA find alien life

These 5 asteroids pose the greatest risk to Earth

This is why Artemis is heading back to the moon

Back to the moon—and beyond

Inside the making of the world’s most powerful telescope

Meet the rock guitarist who helped NASA land on an asteroid

See Sally Ride’s boundary-breaking life in photos

Here’s where you can see a rocket launch in the U.S.

Why humanity keeps pushing the cosmic frontier