Today, at 2 p.m. EST, Webb fired its onboard thrusters for nearly five minutes (297 seconds) to complete the final postlaunch course correction to Webb’s trajectory. This mid-course correction burn ...
According to the ESA, the Webb Telescope has allowed scientists to study the dust grains inside discs like this, which helps ...
Since its launch in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has knocked out every objective NASA set up for it. It's fully unfolded, fully aligned, and patrolling the Sun-Earth L2 point at a balmy ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has reached its final destination, almost a month after launch. Since lifting off from French Guiana on December 25, the telescope has unfurled its tennis court-size ...
NASA reported on the afternoon of January 24th that Webb successfully fired its thrusters to enter a "halo" orbit around the Earth-Sun L2 Lagrange point. It is from this vantage that the Webb ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has been helping scientists explore the cosmos for years now, but there are still plenty of unknown facts about the device.
NASA continues to track the James Webb Space Telescope as it orbits around the Sun-Earth L2 point, a quiet region nearly a million miles from Earth. This stable position allows Webb to stare into deep ...
In preparation for launch later this month, ground teams have successfully completed the delicate operation of loading the James Webb Space Telescope with the propellant it will use to steer itself ...