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.

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 ...

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.

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.

After an astounding first year of science, the James Webb Space Telescope is just getting started as scientists are fully beginning to grasp how they can utilize the most powerful space ...