In early 2025, the James Webb Space Telescope turned its powerful gaze toward Alpha Centauri to search for new planets. Using its Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), JWST aimed to detect gas ...

Alpha Centauri A is just 4.4 light-years away, and astronomers have studied it thoroughly over the years — but if there’s a planet orbiting the nearby star, no telescope on Earth or in space ...

In September 2024, the James Webb Space Telescope observed a large, non-natural object about 10 light-years away from Earth moving towards the planet.

The full view of the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals a 50 light-years-wide portion of the Milky Way’s dense center. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA ...

But the Space Telescope Science Institute, the organization that manages Webb as well as the Hubble Space Telescope, is vanishingly unlikely to grant observation time to a search for Dyson ...

The first photos from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have been released. Here's everything you need to know about space's hottest new photographer.

James Webb is a space telescope, it has a heat shield, gray sheets that protect it from infrared radiation coming from the sun and Earth. ... [Proxima Centauri], which is 4.28 light-years ...

Using gravitational lensing and a massive galaxy cluster located 3.2 billion light-years away the powerful space telescope replicated a distant galaxy three times in a single image.