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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…
Oct 30 2018
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For nearly 20 years, NASA has been planning and constructing a telescope unlike any ever built before: the James…
Oct 8 2018
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The Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode over the weekend as scientists figure out what to do after a component…
Aug 17 2018
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The Universe’s earliest epochs appear to be written into the small dwarf galaxies orbiting our own galactic home,…
Aug 13 2018
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There’s an exoplanet whose surface is so hot, it rips apart water molecules. It’s almost a star, but not quite; it’s…
Aug 4 2018
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NASA’s $600 million Kepler space telescope, which is more or less running on thruster fuel fumes nearly a decade…
Jul 26 2018
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The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology has concluded two days of hearings focused on trying to…
Jul 11 2018
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Eleven light-years from Earth, orbiting a dim red star, there’s an exoplanet called Ross 128b that, as we recently…
Jun 27 2018
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Following an independent review, NASA’s planned James Webb Space Telescope has received yet another delay in its…
Mar 27 2018
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Is this dang telescope ever going to launch?
Feb 12 2018
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President Donald Trump’s 2019 budget request would nix the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), and…
Nov 13 2017
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There’ve been some incredible images of the James Webb Space Telescope, the next generation telescope and successor…
Sep 28 2017
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The Hubble Space Telescope is incredible and has done some truly remarkable science, but it’s getting old. After…
Apr 25 2017
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Like a dandelion reaching up to the sky on a warm spring day, the James Webb Telescope peers upwards in this…
Jan 27 2016
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We’re openly obsessed with the assembly of the segmented origami mirror for the James Webb Space Telescope. A…
Jan 4 2016
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The James Webb Space Telescope construction team doesn’t waste time! After hitting the halfway-point in December,…
Dec 31 2015
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What better way to spend the holidays than watching NASA technicians scurry around assembling mirror segments on the…
Nov 29 2015
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NASA has announced that they’ve installed the first of the James Webb Space Telescope’s mirrors. The part is one of…
Aug 23 2015
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When it launches in October 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope will become the largest optical telescope in space.…
Aug 14 2015
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which will be “in many ways a hundred times” more capable than Hubble, isn’t…