16 December 2021
NASA delays launch of JWST
...problem is to blame, say NASA. "The James Webb Space Telescope team is working a communication issue between the observatory and the launch vehicle system," a brief update on the NASA website reads. "This will delay the launch date to no earlier than...
08 January 2020
New technique on finding oxygen could help find alien life
... to the Hubble telescope, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) when it is launched next year. JWST will be optimised to look for light in the infrared band of the electromagnetic spectrum. This will allow the telescope to look not only at the...
18 November 2020
Astronomers want to revive idea for ‘Ultimately Large Telescope’ on the Moon
... Bang,” said professor Volker Bromm, a theorist who has studied the first stars for decades. “The upcoming James Webb Space Telescope [JWST] will reach the time when galaxies first formed. But theory predicts that there was an even earlier time...
29 December 2021
Success so far means JWST has enough fuel to extend its science lifetime, NASA say
... than originally planned for to put it into its final orbit. Unlike the Hubble Space Telescope, JWST will not orbit around the Earth, but instead will orbit the Sun 1.5 million kilometers (1 million miles) away from our planet at a point...
31 January 2020
A final farewell to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
... missions,NASA made a decision to close out the Spitzer mission in 2018 in anticipation of the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, which also will observe the universe in infrared light. When Webb's launch was postponed, Spitzer was granted...
11 March 2019
NASA outlines future Moon to Mars plans
... humankind 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 with Mars Sample...
