After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 ...

A pair of Sydney Ph.D. students helped sharpen the view of humanity's most powerful space observatory—without leaving Earth.

When NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in 2021, its success depended on one crucial task — keeping its ...

Two students have engineered a fix to improve the imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope interferometer. They did this ...

After applying the correction, Webb captured sharper images of the star HD 206893, revealing a faint planet and a reddish-brown dwarf previously unseen.

That veil of secrecy has now been lifted by the James Webb Space Telescope, which has discovered bizarre, never-before-seen patterns in Saturn’s skies. Peering Into the Invisible On November 29, 2024, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured an unprecedented look inside a vibrant and glittering cluster of newborn stars drifting in the cosmos — some nearly eight times hotter than the sun. The ...

The beams hint at the true scale of the massive star that spawned them. A massive star on the distant outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy is seen blowing a powerful cosmic blowtorch in a new image ...

Astronomers are pulling back the curtain on two of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how planets are born and how invisible matter shapes galaxies. Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Ashley Zelinskie The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to deliver awe-inspiring ...

For the first time, the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk around a planet has been revealed. The James Webb Space Telescope has, for the first time, measured the carbon-rich concoction that ...