James Webb Space Telescope

360 Degrees of Milky Way at Your Fingertips

Touring the Milky Way's a blast with this brand new 360-degree interactive panorama. More than 2 million infrared photos taken…

11 years ago

60 Billion Habitable Planets in the Milky Way Alone? Astronomers say Yes!

A new study suggests that the number of habitable exoplanets within the Milky Way alone may reach 60 billion. Previous…

11 years ago

WISE Nabs the Closest Brown Dwarfs Yet Discovered

We now know our stellar neighbors just a little better, and a new discovery may help tell us how common…

12 years ago

Why Dying Stars Might be a Good Place to Look for Life

We’ve currently found 867 different exoplanets, but have yet to definitely determine if one of those harbors life. How will…

12 years ago

Canada Unveils its Contributions to the JWST

Today Canada's Minister of Industry Christian Paradis unveiled the technologies that comprise Canada's contribution to the James Webb Space Telescope,…

12 years ago

Build a NASA Satellite, Study the Universe Online

Thanks to a new online game from NASA, everyone can be an engineer or astronomer and build a satellite to…

12 years ago

Good and Bad News Comes With NASA’s 2012 Budget

[/caption] On November 14, President Obama signed an Appropriations bill that solidified NASA's budget for fiscal year 2012. The space…

13 years ago

Grunsfeld May Lead NASA Science Division

[/caption]The current buzz amongst those in the know say that astrophysicist/astronaut, John Grunsfeld, has been chosen to lead NASA’s science…

13 years ago