A pair of Sydney Ph.D. students helped sharpen the view of humanity's most powerful space observatory—without leaving Earth.

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 ...

When NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in 2021, its success depended on one crucial task — keeping its ...

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 NASA space telescope scheduled to launch in 2013 will be built using IBM open standards-based software designed to prevent problems caused when software programs developed by various agencies are ...

Despite a rough start to its six year mission, the Euclid space telescope is ending its commissioning phase on a high after finally being able to find its guide stars again. Thanks to a clever ...

The extraordinary James Webb Space Telescope had a major problem before two young scientists unlocked its full potential.

The European Space Agency says a software patch restored stability to its new cosmic mapper — but slower operations could extend the mission. Shortly after launching on 1 July, the European space ...

His first serious camera was the iconic Olympus OM10, with which he won the title of Young Photographer of the Year - long ...