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

The $10bn James Webb telescope has left Earth on its mission to show the first stars to light up the Universe. The observatory was lifted skyward by an Ariane rocket from the Kourou spaceport in ...

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 ...

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Artwork: Webb should be ready for full science operations in June or July Thirty days after it was launched, the James Webb telescope has arrived at the position in space where it will observe the ...

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 ...

Black hole in ULAS J1120+0641 has record mass compared to its galaxy. Quasar's black hole is 1.4 billion solar masses, half its galaxy's mass. Astronomers used JWST to uncover details about this ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, methane and carbon monoxide on exoplanet VHS 1256 b. The exoplanet is more ...

James Webb Telescope discovers monster black hole consuming matter 40 times faster than anything thought possible '6 months in space': Japan launches first wooden satellite to test wood for space ...

This year, leading thinkers asked how humanity became so fragile, what other life could exist in the universe, and whether it ...

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 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.