James Webb Space Telescope
NASA has a Plan to Minimize Future Micrometeoroid Impacts on JWST
Micrometeoroid strikes are an unavoidable part of operating a spacecraft. But after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was hit…
Woohoo! JWST's Mid-Infrared Instrument is Fully Operational Again
Engineers with the James Webb Space Telescope have figured out a way to work around a friction issue that arose…
JWST Sees the Same Galaxy From Three Different Angles Thanks to a Gravitational Lens
The Webb Telescope can see distant galaxies incredibly well, even when they are gravitationally lensed by galactic clusters.
Here are Four Ways JWST Could Detect Alien Life
There are many ways that the James Webb Space Telescope could search for life. Here are four promising ones.
How to See the Bigger Picture From NASA’s Webb Space Telescope
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Side-by-side pictures from NASA’s 32-year-old Hubble Space Telescope and the brand-new James Webb Space Telescope may draw…
Webb Can Detect Planets Orbiting White Dwarfs, And Maybe Even See Signs of Life
In a recent study accepted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, an international team of researchers led…
Webb and Hubble Peer Into the Wreckage of a Galactic Collision
Earlier this month we asked, what could be better than a pair of galaxies observed by a pair of iconic…
Chandra’s X-ray Vision Combined With JWST Reveals Even More Details About the Universe
NASA scientist have released images combining the early data from the James Webb Space Telescope with X-ray data taken with…
Scientists Discover a New Way Exoplanets Could Make Oxygen; Unfortunately, it Doesn’t Require Life
Finding oxygen in an exoplanet's atmosphere is a clue that life may be at work. On Earth, photosynthetic organisms absorb…
Webb Sees Organic Molecules in the Hearts of Galaxies, Surprisingly Close to Active Supermassive Black Holes
When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched, one of its jobs was studying galactic formation and evolution. When we…