The James Webb Space Telescope has captured 19 spiral galaxies "face-on" in near- and mid-infrared. The images "show stars, gas, and dust on the smallest scales ever observed beyond our own galaxy," ...

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

This phase represents a brief and intense period that only certain massive stars experience shortly before exploding as supernovas.

The cutting-edge, $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shared its debut image with the world on July 12, 2022, peering deeper into the universe than any telescope before it. Since then ...

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

The gruesome palette of these galaxies is owed to a mix of mid-infrared light from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, and visible and ultraviolet light from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space ...

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

"The Hubble and Webb observations together provide so much more detail that they are telling us something completely new ...

Space-based telescopes are remarkable. Their view isn't obscured by the weather in our atmosphere, and so they can capture ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered lonely quasars in the early universe, with "empty larders" that defy theories ...

This image by the James Webb Space Telescope showcases a spiral galaxy IC 5332 located 29 million light-years from Earth. The ...