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

This pair of galaxies is currently in the process of colliding and merging into one, a process that will take around a ...

Pocock, who has worked on the JWST, catalogues the science behind its most stunning images in her new book, Webb's Universe. Here's her pick of the telescope’s best shots ...

This belief appears to have been confirmed thanks to observations made by the James Webb space telescope. By looking at the brown dwarf, astronomers were able to detect thick clouds of sand-like ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch ... Webb telescope was recreate one of the most iconic Hubble photos of all ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a powerful tool for exploring space, launched in December 2021. It can see faraway ...

The gas giant just has a lot going on. And now, thanks to the power of the James Webb space telescope, we’ve been given a spectacular view of auroras on Jupiter. Additionally, James Webb has ...

The two pictures, and others, were presented to the world on Tuesday to mark the James Webb observatory's readiness to begin science operations. The facility has spent the past six months since ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most powerful telescope ever launched to space. Its mirror is composed of 18 individual segments that have been aligned so accurately, that they ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured incredibly sharp images of the Horsehead Nebula, one of the most iconic ...

In this picture, taken using the James Webb telescope's mid-infrared technology, we can see a zoomed-in portion of the Horsehead Nebula that's around 0.8 light years wide (around 4.8 trillion miles).