The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, astronomers said Wednesday, capturing rare direct images ...

Nestled inside a planetary ring 110 light-years from Earth, a planet spotted by the James Webb telescope is the lightest ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of an exoplanet for the first time since it began science operations ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. How does the camera on the James Webb Space ...

James Webb can capture galaxies further away in much higher detail than Hubble and previous space telescopes could. Image source: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

NASA shared the image of Mars in a blog post this week. According to the author, Alise Fisher, James Webb captured its first image and spectra of Mars on September 5. Since then, scientists have ...

The first image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows innumerable galaxies swirling around a central point, like the light thrown off from a disco ball. July 11, 2022 ...

A stunning advancement in a long history of stargazing, the James Webb telescope reveals light where once we saw only darkness. Our view of the universe will never be the same.

On Tuesday, NASA released images from the James Webb Space Telescope of the Cartwheel Galaxy, located about 500 million light-years from Earth. The galaxy resembles a wagon wheel, NASA said, due ...

The Royal Astronomical Society briefly mandated that all journal articles refer to the observatory as 'JWST', before NASA cleared former chief James Webb of persecuting queer staffers.

The Webb telescope has produced breathtaking images of distant galaxies in space. Here is everything you need to know about what the telescope is, what it does, and why it was made.

The James Webb Space Telescope's full-color images. (ESA/Webb/AFP via Getty Images) “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” ...