When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Stars are getting sharper in the James Webb Space Telescope's field of view. The team recently ...

Webb continues on its path to becoming a focused observatory. The team has successfully worked through the second and third out of seven total phases of mirror alignment. With the completion of these ...

A mosaic of images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, showing the images of a single star as seen by the 18 segments of the spacecraft's primary mirror as part of the mirror alignment process.

The James Webb Space Telescope will be the most powerful space telescope ever built, and it will succeed NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope by 2018. Powering this massive observation machine is a huge ...