31 January 2020
A final farewell to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
... in infrared light, revealing new wonders in our solar system, our galaxy and beyond, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope's mission has come to an end. Mission engineers confirmed at about 2:30 pm PDT (5:30 pm EDT) Thursday the spacecraft was placed...
16 December 2019
Cheops, ESA's exoplanet watching telescope launches tomorrow
...is why we need precision measurements.” The squat looking telescope will also identify the best candidates for future detailed ... up and coming observatories such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Hubble's successor, JWST, will be NASA's ...
11 May 2020
Spacecraft and telescopes join forces to probe deep into Jupiter's atmosphere
...the processed data easily accessible to other researchers through the Mikulski Archives for Space Telescopes (MAST) at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. "What's important is that we've managed to collect this huge data set...
December 2014
Finding NEO
... two thirds of PHAs larger than 140m. Another proposed space-based survey, Sentinel, would place a 0.5-metre telescope into an orbit similar to that of Venus. Sentinel is anticipated to be capable of detecting 90 per cent of NEOs larger than 140m...
November 2025
Searching for life beyond Earth
... The radial velocity method to detect exoplanets uses ground-based telescopes to detect the tiny ‘wobbles’ an (unseen) planet ...approaches. The first is radial velocity, using ground-based telescopes to detect the tiny wobbles a planet induces in its...
22 November 2017
JWST completes crucial cryogenic test
... complete thermal vacuum testing for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST); confirming that the soon-to-be-launched observatory is ...would normally be obscured from our eyes. The Webb telescope is thus hoping to unravel some of the greatest mysteries...
