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The James Webb Space Telescope - successor to the Hubble - just passed a series of environmental testing trials, designed to simulate the rigors of its anticipated launch in 2021.
NASA is delaying the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope for another 7 months, from March 2021 to October 31, 2021, due to, among other factors, work stoppages during the coronavirus pandemic.
Space fans waiting for the launch of the Webb Space Telescope - which will be the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope - will have to wait longer.
The James Webb Telescope's 2 component halves had been undergoing testing in Houston. They're now at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in California, about to be assembled.
In hot Houston, the telescope hangs in historic Chamber A at Johnson Space Center, with the best air conditioning available. It'll soon receive a last test of its ability to withstand the cold of space.
It'll have 7 times the collecting area of Hubble, and it's scheduled for launch in 2018. James Webb Space Telescope ... and more on this episode of EarthSky News.
If we took Earth and Venus - and had them orbit a cool, red star not too far away - could the James Webb Space Telescope tell which planet was habitable?
The James Webb Space Telescope, aka Hubble 2.0, now has its first instrument. The instrument took 10 years and 200 scientists to build.
The James Webb Space Telescope is the next-generation space telescope, following Hubble. It's scheduled to launch in 2018. Here are 5 cool things to know.
A 12,000-pound James Webb Space Telescope model visits the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Read more about it here.
A U.S. Senate committee has proposed to allow the embattled James Webb Space Telescope to launch. There are more political hurdles, but it's a step forward.
The James Webb Space Telescope brings proven on-the-ground benefits as recently as July 2011. Plus - how you can help save this project.
NASA's Webb space telescope looked for baby planets in the protoplanetary disks in 3 young planetary systems. It didn't find any, and scientists explain why.
NASA's Webb Space Telescope has discovered a possible hycean world, with a deep hydrogen atmosphere and a global water ocean. Or is this world too hot?
The recently redesigned Space Telescope Live webapp gives up-to-the-minute information about what the Hubble and Webb space telescopes are observing.
NASA's Webb Space Telescope has taken stunning new images of 19 spiral galaxies. Besides being breathtaking to look at, they are rich in science data.
Two new stamps feature Webb images of our amazing universe. The U.S. Postal Service issued them on January 22, 2024, to celebrate Webb's incredible mission.
The Webb space telescope revealed a jet stream in Jupiter's atmosphere above its equatorial region. The jet stream travels at about 320 mph (515 kph).
NASA's Webb telescope looked at the sub-Neptune exoplanet K2-18 b. It found methane, carbon dioxide, a possible ocean, and even ... maybe ... a biosignature.
Webb has taken a new view of Supernova 1987A, a star that we saw explode nearly 40 years ago. The new view shows structures that we couldn't see before.
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