October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... lunar missions. The established space research community in Scotland has been involved with projects such as NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and ESA’s GAIA, ExoMars, BepiColombo and Sentinel missions. Its extensive activities have been...
January 2023
Is human space exploration DOOMED?
...’ to contract will be picked up by other metagalaxies and go through the process of expansion and contraction. NASA James Webb Space Telescope image of Stephan s Quintet giving astronomers a ringside seat to galactic mergers and interactions. In the...
30 March 2016
Have astronomers found the signatures of the very first black holes formed through the collapse of gas clouds?
... (e.g. HST, VLT, Keck) because they are too faint. This limitation will hopefully be bypassed when the James Webb Space telescope (JWST) is deployed in October 2018. As the mission gets underway, a large wealth of infrared spectroscopic data...
27 September 2016
Astronomers observe possible water vapour plumes on Europa
... vapour and dust emanating from its surface. Scientists will have to wait until 2018, when the James Webb Space Telescope is launched and infra red instruments on board can confirm (or deny) venting or plume activity on Europa...
01 September 2017
TRAPPIST-1 planets could contain substantial amounts of water
... suggest that the outer planets are the best candidates to search for water with the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), they also highlight the need for theoretical studies and complementary observations at all...
01 December 2017
Search for life more difficult than previously assumed
... may still be habitable," Carone explains. And with the combination of improved data from telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope when it is launched in 2019 coupled with advances in computer modelling, significant progress in this exciting...
