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

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

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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, astronomers said Wednesday, capturing rare direct images ...

A surprising new look at the Milky Way has scientists rethinking everything we thought we knew about our home galaxy. Thanks ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is poised to discover billions of new astronomical objects, revolutionizing understanding of ...

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 ...

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 ...

If water can exist out there in structured, planet-building regions of the galaxy, then life might just be another natural outcome of cosmic chemistry. And thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, we ...

The team conducted the MIRI EGS Galaxy and AGN (MEGA) survey with the James Webb Space Telescope to better understand this crucial epoch in the universe's 13.8-billion-year history.

James Webb telescope captures stunning image in space: Meet Leo P, a special dwarf galaxy An image captured in January and that NASA shared earlier in February not only shows Leo P, but its ...