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The James Webb Space Telescope is truly on its way.

The James Webb Space Telescope is finally aloft, but it'll be a while before it starts its highly anticipated science mission.

Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket launches with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope onboard, Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021, from the ELA-3 Launch Zone of Europe's Spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana....

Using observations and archival data from several of NSF's NOIRLab's observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world and in orbit, astronomers have discovered at least 70 new free-floating plan...

At 7:50 pm EST, December 25, 2021, Webb's first mid-course correction burn began....

The James Webb Space Telescope was a decade late and $10 billion over budget, but it has finally launched. 

The mysterious presence of mantle materials more than 1,000 miles (1,609 km) from where they originated may be explained by a 'window' 62 miles (100 kilometers) below the Earth's surface.

Recent satellite images captured by Landsat 8 show a rare windswept sea ice formation over water in Antarctica.