Telescope Drama Could Thwart the Hunt for Extraterrestrial Life
For nearly 20 years, NASA has been planning and constructing a telescope unlike any ever built before: the James Webb…
Scientists Work to Keep Hubble Telescope Functioning After Another Gyroscope Fails
The Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode over the weekend as scientists figure out what to do after a component…
The Universe's Oldest Galaxies Could Be Right in the Milky Way's Backyard
The Universe’s earliest epochs appear to be written into the small dwarf galaxies orbiting our own galactic home, the…
This Exoplanet Is So Hot, It Apparently Tears Apart Water Molecules
There’s an exoplanet whose surface is so hot, it rips apart water molecules. It’s almost a star, but not quite; it’s an…
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope Not Dead Yet, May Even Have Another Exoplanet Survey Left in It
NASA’s $600 million Kepler space telescope, which is more or less running on thruster fuel fumes nearly a decade after…
Congressional Committee Grills NASA and Northrop Grumman on James Webb Space Telescope Delays
The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology has concluded two days of hearings focused on trying to…
New Analysis of Potentially Habitable Exoplanet Makes Us Hungry for Better Telescopes
Eleven light-years from Earth, orbiting a dim red star, there’s an exoplanet called Ross 128b that, as we recently…
NASA Delays James Webb Space Telescope Yet Again, 'Commits' to a 2021 Launch
Following an independent review, NASA’s planned James Webb Space Telescope has received yet another delay in its…
NASA Delays Flagship Space Telescope Mission Once Again
Is this dang telescope ever going to launch?
Trump's Budget Would Scrap Top-Priority Telescope
President Donald Trump’s 2019 budget request would nix the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), and…
Next Generation Telescope Selects First Proposals From Scientific Community
There’ve been some incredible images of the James Webb Space Telescope, the next generation telescope and successor to…
NASA Delays Hubble Successor Launch
The Hubble Space Telescope is incredible and has done some truly remarkable science, but it’s getting old. After all,…
Behold the James Webb Telescope in all Its Unfurled Glory
Like a dandelion reaching up to the sky on a warm spring day, the James Webb Telescope peers upwards in this stunning…
This Robotic Arm Slips James Webb's Mirrors Exactly Where They Need to Be
We’re openly obsessed with the assembly of the segmented origami mirror for the James Webb Space Telescope. A gorgeous…
You're Running Out of Time to Watch the First Origami Mirror Come Together
The James Webb Space Telescope construction team doesn’t waste time! After hitting the halfway-point in December,…
Aww Yeah, the James Webb Space Telescope Has Half Its Mirrors!
What better way to spend the holidays than watching NASA technicians scurry around assembling mirror segments on the…
The James Webb Space Telescope's First Mirror Has Been Installed!
NASA has announced that they’ve installed the first of the James Webb Space Telescope’s mirrors. The part is one of…
The James Webb Space Telescope Looks Like Gold Plated Space Origami
When it launches in October 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope will become the largest optical telescope in space.…
The Newly Proposed High Definition Space Telescope Makes Hubble Look Like a Toy
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which will be “in many ways a hundred times” more capable than Hubble, isn’t…
How We Keep 'New Telescope Smell' From Killing Space Telescopes
Like new cars, new telescopes come with their own unique smell. Unlike cars, telescopes are delicate enough that this…