James Webb
Finally! Here’s the Video of Webb’s Unboxing
It’s been a long time coming. Finally, after years of delays and billions of dollars in budget overruns, the James…
We Could Find Extraterrestrial Civilizations by Their Air Pollution
Upcoming telescopes will give us more power to search for biosignatures on all the exoplanets we've found. Much of the…
James Webb is Working Perfectly! On the Ground. Next Trick: Doing it From Space
The James Webb Space Telescope recently passed another critical milestone - the Ground Segment Test - and is on track…
James Webb Completes a Comprehensive Systems Test for the First Time
The James Webb Space Telescope just passed the critical Comprehensive Systems Test (CST), bringing it a step closer to its…
James Webb is Fully Stowed Into its Launch Configuration
We're inching closer and closer to the James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) launch date of March 30th, 2021, (or maybe…
It Looks Like James Webb’s Launch Date is Going to Slip to July 2021
Put "James Webb Telescope launch" into your search engine and you'll be flooded with links, some reaching back to the…
New Technique Finds Water in Exoplanet Atmospheres
As more and more exoplanets are identified and confirmed by various observational methods, the still-elusive "holy grail" is the discovery…
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,…
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 –…
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…