James Webb Space Telescope: how our launch of world's most complex observatory will rest on a nail-biting knife edge

It will be a nail-biting wait as scientists launch and deploy the most complex observatory ever built.

Piyal Samara-Ratna, Principal Engineer, University of Leicester • conversation
Dec. 20, 2021 • ~9 min

Six space missions to look forward to in 2021

India may land on the Moon this coming year, while Nasa will launch its new, powerful rocket farther into space than any other human rated spacecraft.

Gareth Dorrian, Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of Birmingham • conversation
Jan. 1, 2021 • ~7 min

How the Hubble Space Telescope opened our eyes to the first galaxies of the universe

Thirty years ago the Hubble Space Telescope began snapping photos of distant stars, providing a time machine that has taken astronomers back to when the universe was less than a billion years old.

Rodger I. Thompson, Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona • conversation
April 24, 2020 • ~9 min

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