It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

The latest James Webb Space Telescope observations focused on the HR 8799 system, which consists of four planets orbiting their host star about 130 light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus.

Just one big mirror would have been too large for ... spacecraft by nearly 700 degrees Fahrenheit. Under the James Webb Space Telescope lies the heart of its scientific prowess, the Integrated ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope zoomed in on extremely faint objects ... That's over two-and-a-half times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope's mirror, meaning Webb has six times the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into the dusty shroud of a young nebula alight with star formation on the hunt for "failed star" brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs are stellar ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the most powerful space observatory ever built, designed to peer 13.5 billion years into the past and uncover the secrets of the universe. Launched aboard the ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than images from ground-based telescopes. In August of that year, Hubble made one of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a giant galaxy that shouldn't exist. Using this exceptionally powerful telescope, a team of researchers were able to peer back in time and observe this ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

The James Webb Space Telescope can see all over the universe with its enormous mirror, but it can't see itself. There are no external cameras, and instead of being in low-Earth orbit, it's all the ...