04 October 2019
Have ancient filaments helped uncover the nature of dark matter?
... that model out. We now have a blueprint for how to do this." With a new generation of telescopes getting ready for launch – including the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) – scientists will hopefully have the tools to look further back into the...
19 February 2018
TESS arrives in Florida ahead of its April launch
... the quality of images the TESS team hope to collect. The telescope is set to monitor more than 200,000 stars for temporary drops...with large ground telescopes, the Hubble Space telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope, which is set for launch next ...
30 March 2016
Have astronomers found the signatures of the very first black holes formed through the collapse of gas clouds?
...HST, VLT, Keck) because they are too faint. This limitation will hopefully be bypassed when the James Webb Space telescope (JWST) is deployed in October 2018. As the mission gets underway, a large wealth of infrared spectroscopic data (extended above...
09 February 2018
New research on rocky worlds helps identify Earth-like planets
... candidates to test our ideas about how super-Earths form and evolve, potentially using NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope." New data was also released this week on the seven planets orbiting the nearby ultra-cool...
11 September 2019
First detection of atmospheric water vapour on 'super-Earth' in habitable zone
... planets like it, scientists will have to wait a few more years when the likes of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the ARIEL telescope are launched, so that other molecular species can be detected. ARIEL, the Atmospheric Remote-sensing...
15 April 2020
Scientists discover most brightest and energetic supernova yet
... Berger, a coauthor from Harvard University. "Now that we know such energetic explosions occur in nature, NASA's new James Webb Space Telescope will be able to see similar events so far away that we can look back in time to the deaths of the...
