Blue Dot, named after Carl Sagan's famous speech about our place in the universe, ... June 6, 2025 • Blue Dot marks three years of operation of the magnificent James Webb Space Telescope.

New photos from the James Webb Space Telescope show off the bewitching beauty of the warped quasar RX J1131-1231, which is adorned with four bright spots birthed by mind-bending space-time trickery.

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...

A distant quasar known as RX J1131-1231 is the subject of gravitational lensing by a nearby elliptical galaxy, appearing as a jeweled ring in space.

The James Webb telescope took many dazzling photos in 2023, five of which are shown here. Clockwise, from top left: HH 211 (young star jets), Rho Ophiuchi (a stellar nursery), Uranus, the Crab ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured a new image revealing the colors of Earendel, the farthest star ever detected. Earendel was first discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope last year. It ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has an eye for bling. A new image released by the European Space Agency shows the powerful telescope's latest — and decidedly glamorous — finding: a bright ...

James Webb Space Telescope discovers planets forming in space's most punishing environments; ... Related: 'Pale blue dot' planets like Earth may make up only 1% of potentially habitable worlds.

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied hundreds of these "little red dots" and found clues about their identity.