Highly sensitive instrument demonstrated its capabilities by detecting strong bio-fluorescence signals from ancient fossils on Earth
Read article: Biofinder could detect signs of extraterrestrial life
Tell-tale signs of rotation show up in redshifted light from distant galaxy JD1
Read article: Galactic remnant of the universe’s ‘dark ages’ is rotating, say astronomers
Analysis of material returned from the Hayabusa2 mission lends support to theories of how the Sun and other bodies formed
Read article: Asteroid sample offers clues to the origins of our solar system
New analyses could shed more light on the physics of the solar wind
Read article: Whistler waves disappear close to the Sun
Now the mission has reached its destination, what lies ahead for the science programme?
Read article: The James Webb Space Telescope launches astronomy into a new era
Video story introducing the landmark astronomy mission and its science goals
Read article: The James Webb Space Telescope blazes towards science operations
With the James Webb Space Telescope finally launched, Keith Cooper explores the mission’s troubled past, its technological advances and the exciting future of astronomy
Read article: A new cosmic dawn: peering across the universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Mission will probe exoplanet atmospheres as well as peer back some 300 million years after the Big Bang to when some of the first galaxies existed
Read article: NASA launches flagship $10bn James Webb Space Telescope
Exoplanets weren’t really a thing when the James Webb Space Telescope was on the drawing boards in the mid-1990s. Now they’re an integral part of its mission, explains Keith Cooper
Read article: The ten-billion-dollar gamble: Why the JWST’s delays were a boon for exoplanet science
Imaging the earliest galaxies and observing the life cycle of others are high on the James Webb Space Telescope’s to-do list, as Keith Cooper explains
Read article: The ten-billion-dollar gamble: How the JWST will see deep into the universe’s past
