The exoplanet, discovered in 2009, remained elusive due to dense clouds. Now, scientists have peered through with the James ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar monster 20 times the mass of the sun. Supernovas in the early universe ...

Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS ...

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals ...

By adding these colors to the images, scientists help the public appreciate the James Webb Space Telescope and its contributions to astronomy. "We're just trying to enhance things to make it more ...

Why it's so special: This James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image has helped astronomers untangle a long-standing mystery about how planets form. The mystery arose more than 20 years ago ...

Dr. Dale Kocevski, a professor of astronomy and physics at Colby ... A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data from multiple surveys to compile one of the largest ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

A stunning corner of the cosmos was recently revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope ... is what's known in astronomy as a Herbig-Haro object – a bright patch of cosmic emission associated ...