22 February 2017
NASA announces the discovery of first-ever exoplanet system with seven Earth-size planets
..., California. "Spitzer will follow up in the fall to further refine our understanding of these planets so that the James Webb Space Telescope can follow up. More observations of the system are sure to reveal more secrets.” NASA will...
08 January 2020
New technique on finding oxygen could help find alien life
...much anticipated successor to the Hubble telescope, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) when it is launched next year.... levels as on Earth was thought to be undetectable with Webb," said Thomas Fauchez of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and...
18 November 2020
Astronomers want to revive idea for ‘Ultimately Large Telescope’ on the Moon
... advanced telescope, the powerful but problem-prone James Webb Space Telescope, would be able to detect them....author on a recent research paper describing the possibilities of the ULT. Webb will be able to see what the Universe looked like around a ...
31 January 2020
A final farewell to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
... Spitzer additional time to continue producing transformative science including insights that will pave the way for Webb, which is scheduled to launch in 2021. "Everyone who has worked on this mission should be extremely proud today," Hunt...
May 2024
The universe in acrylics - an artist’s passion
... about 3.9 billion years ago. Although I usually draw my inspiration from images from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes, during the Reinventing Space conference someone alerted me to imagery of Mars from the HiRISE camera...
16 December 2019
Cheops, ESA's exoplanet watching telescope launches tomorrow
... also identify the best candidates for future detailed studies by up and coming observatories such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Hubble's successor, JWST, will be NASA's premier observatory of the next decade, and will...
