The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...

Webb's high-resolution instruments uncover distant objects, enabling studies of early stars, galaxies, and habitable ...

From its halo-like orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is seeing farther than human eyes ...

At this point, astronomers are used to the James Webb Space Telescope pushing the boundaries of astronomy — so it is little ...

The discovery of the supermassive black, thought to be within 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, gives astronomers new ...

JWST, a groundbreaking space observatory, enhances our understanding of the cosmos by studying distant galaxies, star ...

Imagery of Saturn captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is superimposed over an image captured by Hubble. "Yellows ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a powerful tool for exploring space, launched in December 2021. It can see faraway ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

Since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope has identified early galaxies that shine unexpectedly brightly, suggesting ...

James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M.