New Target Launch Date for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
NASA now is targeting October 31, 2021, for the launch of the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope from French Guiana, due to impacts from the…
James Webb Space Telescope News
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Completes First Full Systems Evaluation
Now that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been assembled into its final form, testing teams seized the unique opportunity to perform a critical software…
Time Traveling to Deliver the Unseen: Mapping the Early Universe With NASA’s Webb Space Telescope
Astronomers and engineers have designed telescopes, in part, to be “time travelers.” The farther away an object is, the longer its light takes to reach…
NASA Gravity Assist: Puffy Planets and Powerful Telescopes
With more than 4,000 planets known that orbit other stars, scientists have discovered that many of these exoplanets are quite unlike our own. NASA has…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Successfully Extends Deployable Tower Assembly
To test the James Webb Space Telescope’s readiness for its journey in space, technicians successfully commanded it to deploy and extend a critical part of…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Will Investigate the Dawn of Our Solar System
Researchers will observe far-flung asteroids, some with moons, to learn more about the makeup and history of our solar system Millions of asteroids roam our…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Fully Stowed in Launch Configuration
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been successfully folded and stowed into the same configuration it will have when loaded onto an Ariane 5 rocket…
New Detectability Index Aids Search for Extraterrestrial Life on Exoplanets
Whether there is life elsewhere in the universe is a question people have pondered for millennia, and within the last few decades, great strides have…
NASA’s New $10 Billion Space Telescope Successfully Deploys Massive Mirror
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope fully deployed its primary mirror into the same configuration it will have when in space as part of a recent…
NASA’s New Space Telescope Will Seek Atmospheres Around Potentially Habitable Exoplanets
Larger, gas giant exoplanets will also fall under the James Webb Space Telescope’s gaze The TRAPPIST-1 system of exoplanets holds exciting possibilities in the search…
The James Webb Space Telescope Is the Largest, Most Powerful Space Telescope Ever Built [Video]
The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest, most powerful and most technologically challenging space telescope ever built. The Webb Telescope is so large; it…
NASA’s Webb Telescope to Search for Rogue Planets and Young Brown Dwarfs
How small are the smallest celestial objects that form like stars, but don’t produce their own light? How common are they compared to full-fledged stars?…
Comparing the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes: From Ultraviolet to Infrared
This Hubblecast explores how the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s observations differ across different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, and how these observations will be complemented…
New Method of Finding Atmospheres on Rocky Exoplanets With Webb Space Telescope
When NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launches in 2021, one of its most anticipated contributions to astronomy will be the study of exoplanets—planets orbiting distant…
Alternative Earths – Secrets of Sustaining Life
Three billion years ago, Earth was a very different place. The sun that shone on its oceans and continents was not as bright as it…
NASA’s New Star-Watching Technology Has Thousands of Tiny Shutters
NASA scientists plan to demonstrate a revolutionary technology for studying hundreds of stars and galaxies at the same time — a new capability originally created…
NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Penetrate Space Dust to Reveal Milky Way’s Center
The center of our galaxy is a crowded place: A black hole weighing 4 million times as much as our Sun is surrounded by millions…
Merging Galaxies Spotted by Hubble Space Telescope
Over thirty years ago, the Infrared Astronomy Satellite discovered that the universe contained many extremely luminous galaxies, some more than a thousand times brighter than…
