The center of our galaxy is a crowded place: A black hole weighing 4 million…
Browsing: James Webb Space Telescope
Read the latest news on the James Webb Space Telescope, the large, space-based observatory that will complement and extend the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope. With its 6.5-meter primary mirror, Webb offers longer wavelength coverage and vastly improved sensitivity, allowing it to look further back in time to view the first galaxies that formed in the early universe and to peer inside dust clouds where stars and planets are forming today.
Over thirty years ago, the Infrared Astronomy Satellite discovered that the universe contained many extremely…
In April 2018, NASA launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Its main goal is…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the most ambitious and complex space observatory ever built, will…
The first stars in the universe blazed to life about 200 to 400 million years…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope currently is undergoing final integration and test phases that will…
Water is crucial for life, but how do you make water? Cooking up some H2O…
The planet Mars has fascinated scientists for over a century. Today, it is a frigid…
As NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and other new giant telescopes come online they will…
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are. Astronomers are hopeful that the…
The vault-like, 40-foot (12-feet) diameter, 40-ton door of Chamber A at NASA’s Johnson Space Center…
NASA astronomers will use the James Webb Space Telescope to understand the creation of the…
NASA has announced that they will use the infrared capabilities of the James Webb Space…
Astronomers plan to use the James Webb Space Telescope to detect atmospheric features of the…
Engineers have installed the 18th and final primary mirror segment on what will be the…
Paul Geithner (Deputy Project Manager for the James Webb Space Telescope) answers questions about building…
The most powerful space telescope ever built, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is still on…