Astronomers found strong evidence that a gassy Jupiter-size world is orbiting one of three stars in the stellar system ...

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By using a giant mirror to collect ancient light, Webb has been discovering new secrets about the universe.

Webb has been orbiting more than a million miles from Earth, capturing breathtaking images of deep space. But how does it ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our solar system from another ...

These star-shredding black holes sit within dusty galaxies that block many telescopes’ views. That’s not an issue for JWST.

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But astronomers think it's been holding a secret that only the penetrating gaze of the James Webb Space Telescope, a joint project of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, could reveal.

Webb's Near-Infrared Camera view shows at least two or three distinct outflows of gas — jets stretching in different directions — plus a disk of compressed material forming along the middle, likely ...