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.

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

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 James Webb Space Telescope's view of a young star cluster 5,500 light-years from the solar system. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI, A. Pagan (STScI)) It's a self-sustaining nursery, but ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured NGC 346, a star-forming region about 210,000 light years away. One of the features of the region resembles a dragon. Learn more about it in this NASA tour.

For decades, Saturn’s upper atmosphere has been one of the solar system’s great enigmas. Even the Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn for over a decade, had difficulty catching clear signals from ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a giant protostar blasting jets, seen diagonally here, on the edge of the Milky Way. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Yu Cheng / Joseph DePasquale In a ...

Astronomers have discovered a new object that could help shed light on mysterious " little red dots " that were first spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in 2022. The newfound object, ...