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Will We Find Alien Life Within 20 Years? You Can Bet On It.

During a hearing last week before the U.S. House Science and Technology Committee SETI scientists Seth Shostak and Dan Werthimer…

10 years ago

Kepler Can Still Hunt For Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Researchers Suggest

Kepler may not be hanging up its planet-hunting hat just yet. Even though two of its four reaction wheels --…

11 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

Watch the James Webb Telescope Being Built Via “Webb-cam”

Want to watch the highly anticipated James Webb Space Telescope come together? NASA has set up a webcam – in…

12 years ago

Surprise! NASA Gets Two ‘Free’ Hubble-like Space Telescopes

[/caption] NASA will be getting two unused space surveillance satellites from the US’s National Reconnaissance Office, which could possibly be…

12 years ago

Meet MIRI, Infrared Camera for Webb Telescope

Our friend Will Gater from the BBC's Sky At Night Magazine had the chance to get a behind-the-scenes tour of…

13 years ago

James Webb Mirrors Pass Deep-Freeze Exams

[/caption] The last of the 21 mirrors for the James Webb Space Telescope have come out of deep freeze –…

13 years ago

Senate Approves Bill Funding JWST

This afternoon the U.S. Senate approved H.R. 2112, a FY 2012 bill from Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski that would fund…

13 years ago

What is Vision? (A Save The James Webb Support Video)

Do you love astronomy? Do you appreciate science? Do you have a curiosity about the nature of our Universe, how…

13 years ago