Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter have been "photo-mapped onto a sphere," and animated into a full rotation, according to ESA/NASA. Credit: Space.com | NASA, ESA, J. DePasquale (STScI), A ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently turned its attention to the distant planetary system in our Milky Way galaxy to gather new and unexpected insights for a team of researchers.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has notched another milestone, capturing a direct image of a distant, frigid planet in a solar system unlike our own, astronomers announced on Tuesday (June 10).

The James Webb Space Telescope provides a clear view of the central white dwarf creating the Ring Nebula in the left image. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Raghvendra Sahai et al.

New NSF telescope aims to discover unknowns in space This image combines 678 separate images taken by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in just over seven hours of observing time.

Data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of small galaxies that played a starring role in a cosmic makeover that transformed the early universe into the one we know today.

Our universe is host to many beautiful and fascinating objects, and we're lucky enough to be able to view many of them using high tech instruments like the James Webb Space Telescope. A new Webb ...

A Colossal Telescope in the Desert Just Captured Galaxies We’ve Never Seen Before More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...