It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these ... Here's how Webb is achieving ...

Two years ago today, NASA unveiled the first full-color space images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope ... but the extremely high precision of Webb's huge mirror allows the telescope ...

The James Webb Space Telescope can see all over the universe with its enormous mirror, but it can't see itself. There are no external cameras, and instead of being in low-Earth orbit, it's all the ...

The mirror actuators on the James Webb Space Telescope are a perfect example of this extreme engineering, and to understand how they work a little better, [Zachary Tong] built a working model of ...

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

The James Webb Space Telescope Mirror is seen during a media unveiling at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center at Greenbelt, Maryland November 2, 2016.REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo Ever since ...

Each segment of the mirror is fitted with servos that can ... Redondo Beach and L2 is critical to the success of the James Webb Space Telescope. The fact that mission planners and engineers ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...