The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of operation, Webb has captured some truly stunning cosmic vistas ...

A nearby galaxy is ablaze with new stars in a dazzling new image from the James Webb Space Telescope. Located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canis Major, this barred spiral ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

Aimed at the nearby star PDS 70, the James Webb Space Telescope is watching newborn planets take shape before our eyes in uprecedented detail. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

In fact, scientists didn't really expect that stars would even be able to still form at all in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, an image of which the James Webb Telescope recently captured in ...

Now, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed an unprecedentedly illuminated view of the gas and dust around a faraway young star. Interestingly, the powerful Webb, with its incredible ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a rogue planet or a "failed star." Either way, the world wanders the cosmos ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is being tapped to study an asteroid with a one-in-43 chance of colliding with Earth. On the slim chance it hits, experts say the impact could level a city or ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is peering into distant worlds and rewriting our grasp of the cosmos. And in 2025, its budget is on track to get slashed. At January's Meeting of the American ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is providing the best look yet at the chaotic events unfolding around the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way ...

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Spectrograph instrument (NIRSpec) has “confirmed this, but in unexpected ways, and in unprecedented detail,” NASA explained in a ...

In a mark of its huge impact on the world of science and astronomy, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope finds itself once again as the inspiration for a new set of stamps from the United States ...