The James Webb Space Telescope is not circling our planet the way most people imagine a satellite does. Instead, NASA parked ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is currently positioned about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth at a gravitational sweet spot ...

Both NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory caught these two galaxies in a close embrace.

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its thrusters to leave Earth behind, and slipped into an orbit around the Sun, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured infrared light from a black hole and gave scientists unprecedented insights into the ...

For years, strange red dots in James Webb images left scientists puzzled. New research shows they are young black holes ...

JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered an astonishing exoplanet that’s stretching our understanding of what’s possible for these distant worlds. And when we say say “stretch, ...

Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Astronomers are studying the hundreds of young, brown dwarf stars inside the stellar nursery. The billowing, vibrantly visualized formation located 20,000 light-years from Earth were imaged using the ...

Fourth anniversaries aren’t often causes for celebration. But in the case of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which launched on Dec. 25, 2021, this anniversary marks an important transition.