An engineer examines the Webb telescope primary mirror Engineering Design Unit segment in the clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA An engineer examines the Webb telescope ...

A communications delay timed out the instrument’s flight software, and some planned observations will have to be rescheduled, NASA says. Reading time 2 minutes NASA says the Webb Space Telescope’s ...

James Webb has hit a software glitch. The newly minted telescope has only been in service for a little over six months, but it has run into yet another problem that will delay scientific observations, ...

The freshly launched observatory encountered a navigation issue that jeopardized its entire mission, but a software patch rectified its cosmic orientation. Reading time 2 minutes Despite a rough start ...

GREENBELT, Md. – Scientists and engineers have created and successfully tested a set of algorithms and software programs which are designed to enable the 19 individual mirrors comprising NASA’s ...

A pair of Sydney Ph.D. students helped sharpen the view of humanity's most powerful space observatory—without leaving Earth. As an indelible reminder of this thrilling result, Louis Desdoigts, now a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope truly explores the unknown, displaying stunning images of previously unseen corners of the universe only possible because of the telescope's 21-foot segmented mirror ...