Originally known as the "Next Generation Space Telescope," the telescope was somewhat controversially named after James E. Webb, one of NASA's early administrators. Webb ran NASA from 1961 to 1968 ...

Astronomers can't agree how fast our cosmos is expanding. A new James Webb Space Telescope study has made the crisis even worse.

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 had several stunning findings this year that changed how we understand the universe.

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 ...