The James Webb Space Telescope is currently positioned about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth at a gravitational sweet spot ...

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 ...

Both NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory caught these two galaxies in a close embrace.

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 ...

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 ...

In order for NASA to study the mysteries of the universe, the scientists there need to be able to look out into the cosmos. The Hubble Space Telescope did this for a time, giving humanity some ...