Growing up Black in Pittsylvania County, Robinson attended a segregated Southside Elementary School through fourth grade. His parents were tobacco sharecroppers.
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The past quarter-century has seen an explosion of mind-blowing advances in human knowledge of deep space, largely on the shimmering back of the Hubble Space Telescope, in low Earth orbit since 1990. Last week, in a kind of Christmas gift for the world, NASA and its international counterparts launched Hubble’s successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, which promises to open humanity’s eyes even wider to the cosmos. It’s a welcome reminder that even in a time when too many Americans are shunning science, Earth’s brightest minds are still working diligently to expand human knowledge of our cosmic surroundings.
The world’s largest and most powerful space telescope rocketed away Saturday on a high-stakes quest to behold light from the first stars and galaxies and scour the universe for hints of life. Here's what it can do.
Astronomer Edwin Hubble confirmed a century ago that countless galaxies exist beyond our Milky Way and the universe is constantly expanding. J…
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the agency's most powerful telescope yet. The first of its kind, the telescope will travel 1 million mile…
When the James Webb Space Telescope launches in December, astronomers around the world are expecting to find the unexpected, said Sara Seager,…
The most powerful telescope ever built is expected to launch on December 25. The James Webb Space Telescope will peer into the atmospheres of …
It's a moment that has been decades in the making. The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's premier observatory of the next decade…
Dwayne Yancey, editorial page editor of The Roanoke Times and author of a book about Virginia politics, will post analysis about tonight's election returns here. Yancey has been a writer and editor for The Roanoke Times since 1982 and was named to the the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame in 2018.
NASA and Northrop Grumman face hard questions about the James Webb Space Telescope.
Twinkling stars are pretty but, for astronomers, problematic. Twinkles are caused by the interference of Earth’s atmosphere with light radiati…
Volunteers of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program of Montgomery County and Radford adopted two military bases and began saving manufactur…
Amid the deep contours of the land that fortify Franklin County’s western edge, James Webb sometimes finds himself cut off.
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We can see the advantages of having U.S. Sen. James Webb on the Democratic ticket in November as the party's vice presidential nominee. But if…
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For Thursday: Sen. James Webb's GI bill to increase educational benefits to military veterans who have seen active duty since 9/11 is gaining …