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Check out NASA's new space telescope 04/16/2026 04:12am • Next week, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center will be unveiling its newest space telescope: the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The Roman telescope was originally called the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) when NASA announced the project in February 2016. NASA said in May 20 2025 has been a banner year for space observation 12/26/2025 06:52pm • 2025 has been quite the year for astronomy and space, new discoveries and Northern Lights. One story rose above all the others — new and older telescopes are putting us on the cusp of monumental discoveries about our universe. In 2025 a decades-old telescope located at Kitt Peak National Obs James Webb Space Telescope: NASA celebrates 2 years and counting with stunning photo 07/12/2024 03:50pm • It is hard to believe that two years have elapsed since NASA first released images and findings from the James Webb Space Telescope. To put it mildly, the JWST has been making astronomical discoveries in the solar system, galaxy and literally the whole universe over the past two years. To comm The James Webb Space Telescope epoch begins 07/13/2022 04:14am • In the history of humanity, there have been profound moments when, in our quest to understand the universe, we made quantum leaps in our discoveries and resulting knowledge. Our quest began when our ancient ancestors first looked at the star-studded night sky, and might have noticed that some mov Groundbreaking photos from Webb telescope coming July 12 07/03/2022 01:41am • 10:30 a.m. EDT, July 12, 2022. Mark that date on your calendar now, as you will not want to miss the public release of the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) first color pictures and scientific findings. Artist rendering of the James Webb telescope. (NASA via Getty Images) It has been jus Gaze at the summer sky with these stargazing events in the DC area 06/24/2022 04:59pm • It looks like there will be decent weather for Saturday’s Astronomy on The Mall Festival and Smithsonian Solstice Saturday in D.C. Both of these events provide a late-night excursion to enjoy extended hours at selected Smithsonian Museums and astronomy-related events. (Courtesy Greg Redfern The Space Place: Black hole deux 05/12/2022 03:05pm • This image released by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Thursday, May 12, 2022, shows a black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A*, near the border of Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations. It is 4 million times more massive than 30 days on the edge for James Webb Space Telescope, NASA 01/25/2022 10:36pm • Monday at 2 p.m. EST, controllers at the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Mission Operations Center commanded the telescope to fire its onboard thrusters for five minutes. At 2:05 p.m., JWST officially arrived at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point known as L2, 30 days after being launched on Chris 30 years later, James Webb Space Telescope finally unfurled 01/09/2022 06:19pm • Saturday night, I tried to image the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) with my personal telescope, but was unsuccessful. I wanted to image Webb because earlier in the day it had successfully unfurled into a full-fledged telescope at about 1:17 p.m. EST. JWST is now too dim for my technology-enhan The Space Place: James Webb Space Telescope set to launch in 1 week 12/18/2021 12:12am • FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 photo released by the European Space Agency, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is secured on top of the Ariane 5 rocket that will launch it to space from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson confirmed Friday that the James Webb S The Space Place: Moonlight meteors and December sky sights 12/12/2021 02:04pm • The Geminid Meteor shower returns this month, and the weather in the D.C. region looks like it will cooperate this year. (Courtesy Greg Redfern) Unlike last year, the D.C. region is forecast to have clear skies on the night of Dec. 13, the peak of the Geminid Meteor Shower. But we will have to c James Webb Space Telescope set for August voyage to launch site 05/16/2021 04:25pm • Space related topics sure have been in the news lately. China just landed a rover on Mars, while a week ago China’s out of control rocket was being monitored worldwide to determine when and where the 22 tons of space junk would come down. NASA got a new Administrator and space tourism is litera Launch of James Webb Space Telescope delayed until possibly 2020 03/27/2018 10:40pm • NASA held a media teleconference Tuesday to discuss the status of the long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope. The JWST had been slated for a launch in 2018 and then 2019. NASA announced Tuesday that it has now tentatively scheduled launch for May 2020. Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot Excitement surrounds space telescope, Moon missions 05/22/2017 06:25am • WASHINGTON — While out to sea and touring the far west for the past 31 days, there has been a lot going on lately with regard to NASA space missions, so I thought I would bring WTOP readers up to speed. The biggest news to me is that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently departed NASAâ James Webb Space Telescope has 2 years until expected launch 11/02/2016 11:00pm • WASHINGTON — NASA held a major media event Wednesday at its Goddard Space Flight Center to showcase the $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). If all goes according to schedule, JWST should be in space two years from now on its way to a point a million miles from Earth called L2. A