JWST

A new study has projected that a future NASA telescope could be capable of discovering up to 1,400 new worlds. The orbital telescope, which has been nicknamed WFIRST, will build on the legacy of earlier missions to answer fundamental questions surrounding the nature of the universe.

The launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been delayed once again, with a new window set for May 2020. The next-generation space telescope had previously been set to launch into orbit atop an Ariane 5 rocket from ESA’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, in the Spring of 2019.

The discovery of seven habitable planets just 40 light years away is awesome, but they are still 40 light years away. Advanced scientific instruments closer to home will play very important roles in exploring these distant worlds, perhaps none more so than the James Webb Space Telescope.

​​The optical and science segment of the largest space telescope ever made now stands complete in the largest clean room on the planet, at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The James Webb Space Telescope is now poised to undergo rigorous pre-flight testing ahead of its 2018 launch.

​NASA engineers at the Goddard Space Flight Center have successfully installed the delicate camera and spectrometer instruments onto the back of the James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) mirror assembly.

A team of astronomers working at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has discovered three planets orbiting a dwarf sun, just 40 light-years from Earth. All three worlds are potentially habitable and may be the best candidates yet in the search for life beyond our solar system.

In the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland, a team of engineers has unveiled the vast gold-covered primary mirror of the future James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

​A key component of the James Webb Space Telescope, the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument, came through its latest tests at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center with flying colors.

​On March 3rd, a team of engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center succeeded in installing the secondary mirror onto the frame of the future James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

​ESA has announced the finalization of a contract with Arianespace that will see its next generation James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) lift off into Earth orbit atop an Ariane 5 launch vehicle. The ascent will take place from the agency's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana in Oct. 2018.

Construction is well under way on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope – the space agency's next generation installation, scheduled to launch in 2018. The instrument is really starting to take shape, with engineers successfully installing the first of 18 mirrors.

Gizmag speaks with Physics Nobel Prize laureate and JWST senior project scientist John Mather on the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope.