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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

JWST will enhance the understanding of stars and galaxies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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