Perhaps the greatest tool astronomers have is the ability to look backward in time. Since starlight takes time to reach us, ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been an astonishing piece of technology for the advancement of humankind's understanding of the universe, and the source of awe-inspiring images of ...

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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but smaller than stars — beyond the Milky Way for the first time ever.

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly imaged its lowest mass extrasolar planet outside the solar system yet. The planet is also the closest to its star to be directly observed by the $10 ...

Digital video producer Casey Kuhn delves into the major discoveries from last year… James Webb Space Telescope prompts scientists to rethink understanding of the universe Wednesday marks a year ...

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 ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The James Webb Space Telescope is one of the most ambitious endeavors of space exploration.

Oct. 3, 2024 — Looking deep into the early universe with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found something unprecedented: a galaxy with an odd light signature, which they ...

Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, orbiting 1 million miles from Earth, scientists peered closely at the planet AF Lep b, an extremely young gas planet at just 23 million years old.

The Tarantula Nebula, as captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Imagine venturing ... JWST and “Deep Sky” represent an almost perfect Venn diagram overlap of my primary interests ...