November 2025
Searching for life beyond Earth
... at finding and studying an Earth-like world. The James Webb Space Telescope gives us our first real opportunity in human history...exoplanets that probably have those conditions. Those the James Webb Space Telescope can study, we call ‘Earth cousins...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
...data is currently available in the mid-infrared. The James Webb Telescope is due for launch in late 2018 and the European...UKATC) and incorporates design heritage from the James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI infrared instrument. Observations with Twinkle...
October 2026
Redefining the edge of the solar system
... and provide early warnings of space weather that affects Earth’s magnetosphere. Astrophysics observatories such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), orbit near Sun-Earth L2, enjoy a thermally stable environment, shielded from infrared radiation...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
...Horizons mission to Pluto, Juno, and the James Webb Space Telescope (plus NSF's ground-based Atacama ... press conference last year on the likelihood of whether the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would remain unscathed as President Trump takes office...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
..., but mission selection is a competitive process. In the meantime, assets on Earth and in orbit (like the James Webb Space Telescope) will continue to observe Saturn to build on Cassini’s legacy of discoveries, while keeping a watchful eye on the...
March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
... for ESA’s Gaia mission and around 3.5 times more than the estimate for NASA/ESA’s James Webb telescope. In terms of data volume and downlink rates Euclid is therefore the most demanding ESA space science...
