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We’re going to have a wait even longer for NASA’s next-generation James Webb Space Telescope to leave Earth, owing…

For nearly 20 years, NASA has been planning and constructing a telescope unlike any ever built before: the James…

The Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode over the weekend as scientists figure out what to do after a component…

The Universe’s earliest epochs appear to be written into the small dwarf galaxies orbiting our own galactic home,…

There’s an exoplanet whose surface is so hot, it rips apart water molecules. It’s almost a star, but not quite; it’s…

NASA’s $600 million Kepler space telescope, which is more or less running on thruster fuel fumes nearly a decade…

The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology has concluded two days of hearings focused on trying to…

Eleven light-years from Earth, orbiting a dim red star, there’s an exoplanet called Ross 128b that, as we recently…

Following an independent review, NASA’s planned James Webb Space Telescope has received yet another delay in its…

Is this dang telescope ever going to launch?

President Donald Trump’s 2019 budget request would nix the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), and…

There’ve been some incredible images of the James Webb Space Telescope, the next generation telescope and successor…

The Hubble Space Telescope is incredible and has done some truly remarkable science, but it’s getting old. After…

Like a dandelion reaching up to the sky on a warm spring day, the James Webb Telescope peers upwards in this…

We’re openly obsessed with the assembly of the segmented origami mirror for the James Webb Space Telescope. A…

The James Webb Space Telescope construction team doesn’t waste time! After hitting the halfway-point in December,…

What better way to spend the holidays than watching NASA technicians scurry around assembling mirror segments on the…

NASA has announced that they’ve installed the first of the James Webb Space Telescope’s mirrors. The part is one of…

When it launches in October 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope will become the largest optical telescope in space.…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which will be “in many ways a hundred times” more capable than Hubble, isn’t…