then the major rocket event of 2021 must surely be the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. The successor to the mighty Hubble observatory is due to go into orbit on 31 October. Its mission ...

The $10bn James Webb telescope has left Earth on its mission to show the first stars ... Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. Its flight to orbit lasted just under half an hour, with a signal ...

It had been assumed that anything smaller could not burn deuterium and would be a planet in orbit around a star. The rogue worlds found by JWST in NGC 1333, and the Orion Nebula before it ...