With the James Webb Space Telescope at its final destination in orbit around the sun, now the telescope has to go through a series of alignment processes to get it ready for collecting science data.

With the exciting process of deployment complete, the James Webb Space Telescope team is now embarking on their next challenge: Aligning the telescope’s mirror segments. This slow, months-long process ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope doesn’t seem so giant in the renderings, until you see how the mirrors are made. The telescope will require seven total mirrors each 27 feet (8.4 meters) in diameter for a ...

NASA's massive new observatory has notched another milestone. After nearly a full month in space, the James Webb Space Telescope, also known as JWST or Webb, is nearly at the end of its deployment ...