The James Webb Space Telescope has given astronomers groundbreaking insight into a new type of planet described as unlike ...

Roman will be the most stable large telescope ever built, at least 10 times more so than NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (courtesy: NASA/Chris Gunn) The ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft concludes its 12-year mission to map the Milky Way, leaving behind a legacy of ...

The JWST was sent to its operational location at the second Lagrange point (L2), approximately 1 million miles from Earth, and became operational for scientific observations in July 2022.

JWST was launched in 2021 on a French Ariane 5 launcher, from French Guyana. A month later, it arrived at its destination, the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point, about 1.5 million kilometers (930,000 miles) ...

This location offers a clear view of deep space, which is why telescopes like the James Webb have been placed there. China, for instance, has stationed the Queqiao relay satellite at L2 in the ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has been truly revolutionary- it is now hard to imagine what life was like without it!" The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has had an impact on astronomy since ...

This Collection highlights the results from the Early Science Release programme of the JWST telescope focused on transiting hot giant exoplanets. With its extended wavelength range and its ...

"These planets are literally spilling their guts into space for us, and with JWST we finally have the means to study their composition and see what planets orbiting other stars are really made of ...