The first images from the telescope were released earlier this week, and it uses a 3,200-megapixel camera the size of a car.

Step outside on a clear night, trace the hazy stripe of the Milky Way and enjoy the comfortable illusion that you more or less grasp our place in the ...

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

The image comes from Webb’s NIRCam instrument and follows mid-infrared observations taken late in 2024. Together with visible-light data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the new frame lets researchers ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, equipped with the largest digital camera, is poised to conduct an unprecedented ...

Highlighting 10 major astronomical milestones of the past century in celebration of the Royal Greenwich Observatory’s 350th ...

A possible new "jellyfish" galaxy discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope could deepen our understanding of galaxy ...

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

Webb’s new images of the Bullet Cluster reveal the most detailed dark matter map yet, shedding light on cosmic collisions and ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a camera so powerful it can see light from galaxies that formed more than 13 ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.