Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe the first asteroid belt seen outside of our solar system and unveiled some cosmic surprises along the way. The space observatory focused on ...

Apologies, birds of the cosmos — the James Webb Space Telescope has set aside ornithology and officially entered its entomology era, a stunning new image of the Butterfly Nebula shows. Glittering some ...

'This challenges current models of disk chemistry and evolution' Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a strange disk of gas and dust around an infant star that ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected strong evidence for a giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest Sun-like star to Earth. Located just 4 light-years away, this possible ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a small moon quietly circling Uranus, a world already known for its unusual tilt, faint rings, and puzzling family of satellites. The discovery, ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...

NASA's $10 billion space telescope studied the third interstellar object to enter the solar system, measuring the chemical contents of its halo. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has observed the ...

This spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows a star cocooned within a massive disk of gas and dust. It's a protoplanetary disk — a ring of dense gas and dust surrounding ...

The James Webb Space Telescope cost taxpayers $10 billion. For that considerable sum, we’ve recently been treated to some spectacular photos of the cosmos. Judging by the comments of my friends, the ...

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