Reaching nanometer precision in space isn’t just hard—it’s nearly impossible. But JWST’s flexure-driven actuators do it while surviving cryogenic temps, vacuum, and launch forces.

The exoplanet — named 14 Herculis c, or 14 Her c for short — orbits a sunlike star about 60 light-years from Earth in the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of tiny, distant galaxies piercing the fog of the cosmic dark age in the ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made an exciting discovery about the early universe. They ...

Inflation and budget issues are threatening to hobble NASA’s most in-demand telescopes.

A NASA-backed project using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has released more than 1.5 TB of data for ...

"The new brown dwarfs are the least massive known brown dwarfs. They place a new constraint on the lowest mass at which brown ...

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JWST confirms Pluto’s haze cools its mesosphere and drives methane escape, coating Charon’s poles red. The haze absorbs UV light, heats the upper atmosphere, and re-radiates heat as infrared.