04 May 2020
Exoplanets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres could harbour life
... could build up in sizeable abundances and eventually become detectable. A task that should become easier when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is launched. With its spectroscopic abilities, the JWST will be a boon for the study...
23 June 2021
Exoplanets with Earth-like biospheres may be rare
... than we might hope,” Giovanni Covone of the University of Naples, lead author of the study says. When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launches later this year, it will have the sensitivity to study the atmospheres of exoplanets...
16 July 2021
NASA's $25 billion FY2022 funding bill is approved
... request for Mars Sample Return, $68.6 million more for Europa Clipper, and $175,400 for the James Webb Space telescope. Aeronautics research was granted $935 million as part of the bill, whilst the $1425 million...
11 March 2019
NASA outlines future Moon to Mars plans
... for generations. We will reveal the unknown with missions to Jupiter’s moon Europa and the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. We will continue planning and developing the first round-trip mission to the Red Planet...
05 October 2020
A dozen "superhabitable" planets better than Earth identified in new study
... be disregarded say the team, as the study could help focus future observation efforts, such as from NASA's James Web Space Telescope, the LUVIOR space observatory and the European Space Agency's PLATO space telescope...
29 December 2021
Success so far means JWST has enough fuel to extend its science lifetime, NASA say
Following its successful launch on 25 December, and the completion of two mid-course correction manoeuvres, the JWST mission team have now determined that the observatory should have enough propellant to allow support of science operations in orbit ...
