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NASA's Webb telescope spots its first Earth-like exoplanet: Researchers

Researchers have confirmed an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another star, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope for the first time

Updated On: 12 Jan 2023 | 12:38 PM IST

NASA captures 1st direct image of exoplanet outside our solar system

The exoplanet is about six to 12 times the mass of Jupiter, and these observations could help narrow that down even further

Updated On: 02 Sep 2022 | 2:38 PM IST

James Webb Space Telescope can help astronomers in search for alien life

Many astronomers believe there's a good chance that life exists on planets orbiting other stars, and it's possible that's where life will first be found

Updated On: 17 Jul 2022 | 12:24 PM IST

James Webb: It is just the beginning

The giant telescope shall also try to identify supermassive black holes that sit at the centre of almost every large galaxy

Updated On: 15 Jul 2022 | 11:12 PM IST

NASA releases images of Universe taken from world's most powerful telescope

The first image from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope was released Monday at the White House - a jumble of distant galaxies that went deeper into the cosmos than humanity has ever seen

Updated On: 12 Jul 2022 | 9:28 PM IST

China says telescope may have picked up signals from alien civilisations

Sky Eye -- the world's largest radio telescope -- detected narrow-band electromagnetic signals, which may have been signs of alien civilisations

Updated On: 15 Jun 2022 | 10:42 AM IST

Webb telescope endures impact from larger than expected micrometeoroid

The next-generation and powerful James Webb telescope was hit by space debris called micrometeoroid, leading to a "marginally detectable effect in the data" but has suffered no damage, says NASA

Updated On: 10 Jun 2022 | 12:49 PM IST

James Webb telescope reaches final stable position 1 mn miles from Earth

The James Webb Space Telescope is the scientific complement to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It will be the most powerful space telescope ever built.

Updated On: 25 Jan 2022 | 10:42 AM IST

NASA's Webb Telescope reaches major milestone as 'Mirror Unfolds'

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope team fully deployed its 21-foot, gold-coated primary mirror, successfully completing the final stage of all major spacecraft deployments

Updated On: 09 Jan 2022 | 7:51 AM IST

Technicians successfully deploy James Webb Telescope Giant sunshield: NASA

NASA technicians have successfully fully deployed the massive sunshield protecting the James Webb Space Telescope, the US space agency announced

Updated On: 05 Jan 2022 | 8:09 AM IST

A new universe

JWST will enhance the understanding of stars and galaxies

Updated On: 30 Dec 2021 | 10:55 PM IST

NASA's James Webb telescope launched on daring quest to behold 1st stars

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope soared from French Guiana on South America's northeastern coast, riding a European Ariane rocket into the Christmas morning sky

Updated On: 25 Dec 2021 | 6:27 PM IST

NASA launches X-ray space telescope to unlock secrets of black hole

US space agency NASA on Thursday launched its new X-ray Mission to unlock the secrets of extreme cosmic objects.

Updated On: 09 Dec 2021 | 11:14 PM IST

The Webb Telescope, NASA's golden surfer, is almost ready, again

Thirty years, $8.8 billion, multiple mishaps and budget crises and a threatened congressional cancellation later, the James Webb Space Telescope is finally ready

Updated On: 03 Feb 2021 | 10:26 PM IST

India's Astrosat completes 5 years of mapping stars, galaxies in space

Launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on September 28 2015, in the five years of its operation Astrosat has achieved quite a feat

Updated On: 28 Sep 2020 | 10:46 PM IST

World's first infrared telescope to decode universe mysteries

This adaptive telescope is potential to correct atmospheric turbulence and harness optics

Updated On: 29 May 2017 | 3:42 AM IST