Knicole Colon, astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, seen with the James Webb Space Telesocpe at Northrop Grumman Corporation in Redondo Beach, California. Credit:…
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Technicians inspect a critical part of the James Webb Space Telescope known as the Deployable Tower Assembly after fully extending it in the same maneuver…
Artist’s concept depicts Kepler-186f, the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone — a range of distance from a…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope fully deployed its primary mirror in a recent test. This is the same configuration it will have when in space.…
Rendering of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest, most powerful and most technologically challenging space telescope ever built.…
Artist’s rendering of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: Northrop Grumman How small are the smallest celestial objects that form like stars, but don’t produce…
This Hubblecast explores how the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s observations differ across different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, and how these observations will be complemented…
This artist’s impression shows a rocky exoplanet with a wispy, cloudy atmosphere orbiting a red dwarf star. Astronomers have identified a new method that could…
An artist’s impression of the rocky exoplanet Kepler-186f, which is one of the most promising candidates for a planet could potentially be habitable, but how…
The Goddard-developed microshutter array technology has evolved since its initial development in the 1990s for the James Webb Space Telescope. Here are images of its…
NGC 2623: Merging Galaxies from Hubble. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Over thirty years ago, the Infrared Astronomy Satellite discovered that the universe contained many extremely…