
International Space Station
An orbiting laboratory for international science and human spaceflight.
Microgravity research advances medicine, materials science, and our understanding of life in space.

Every explorer. Every discovery. Every story starts here.
The ISS and Hubble circle Earth. Webb observes from Sun–Earth L2, about 1.5 million kilometers away.

An orbiting laboratory for international science and human spaceflight.
Microgravity research advances medicine, materials science, and our understanding of life in space.

Observe the early universe, star formation, and exoplanet atmospheres in infrared light.
Reveals exceptionally distant galaxies and identifies molecules in exoplanet atmospheres.

Observe the cosmos in ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light.
Helped refine the age of the universe and established evidence for supermassive black holes in galaxies.

Explore the outer planets and the boundary between our solar neighborhood and interstellar space.
Discovered active volcanoes on Io; both probes crossed the heliopause into interstellar space.