Professor Gillian Wright News Today

SCIENTISTS in Scotland have been celebrating the first photographs from the James Webb Space Telescope, which show the most details images ever…

They show the glittering landscape of the early universe and offer a breathtaking, first view into the area of deep cosmos where stars were formed.

International scientific and engineering communities celebrated a special Christmas event when the James Webb Telescope (Webb), described as a once-in-a-generation spacecraft, successfully blasted off from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana - the culmination of decades of scientific collaboration. Click to read more...

When the immense sound of the Ariane 5 rocket rumbles across Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana, it will signal the end of a journey...

ASTRONOMERS, engineers and scientists based in Edinburgh played a pivotal role in the historic launch of the James Webb Space Telescope.

The once-in-a-generation James Webb Space Telescope has launched, with scientists and engineers across the UK playing a vital role in the mission.

The telescope carries the hopes and dreams of thousands of engineers and scientists who have worked to make this observatory a reality.

When the immense sound of the Ariane 5 rocket rumbles across Europes spaceport in French Guiana, it will signal the end of a journey decades in the making. Perched atop the rocket will be the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the most sophisticat

We are poised on the edge of new discoveries about the origins of our universe and our place within it – insights that will fill the textbooks of tomorrow.

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