The Hubble successor – the James Webb Space Telescope – just got a new lease of life! The US Senate has dug it out of a deep hole.

The US have introduced drastic fund cuts, due to its long war on terror. This adversely affects the science community and with funds drying up in every science sector, it’s a grim picture for science, the US and the future. Have the terrorists won, after all?

With the end of the space shuttle program, NASA wants to erase out its legacy. This seems to be the mood, one of disbelief, desperation and anger, in the astronomy circles, in reaction to the cancellation of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) program.