NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces challenges in exoplanet research, a new roadmap in Nature Astronomy outlines steps to overcome obstacles and improve data efficiency for the TRAPPIST-1 system.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) faced challenges in exoplanet research three years after its 2021 launch, slowing progress. A new roadmap, published in Nature Astronomy, outlines steps to overcome these obstacles and improve data efficiency for the TRAPPIST-1 system, benefiting the astronomy community. The roadmap aims to give JWST a better chance at identifying habitable exoplanets.

July 24, 2024
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