As such, scientists recently turned the James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) powerful gaze towards 2024 YR4, capturing the object in both visible and thermal light. The team measured the asteroid ...

Last week, astronomers unveiled exciting new images of planets in the HR 8799 and 51 Eridani star systems — and it was all thanks to a creative use of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A Rivkin (JHU APL) 2024 YR4 may not make catastrophic history, but it did set a new record for the JWST as the smallest object ever targeted by the telescope. It’s also ...

In its short existence, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has transformed our understanding of the universe. It has peered at planets, stars, galaxies and black holes, casting its eye over a ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party—and it is weird, wild and wonderful. Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a Northwestern ...

Spiral galaxies imaged by JWST that rotate in the same direction relative to the Milky Way (red) and in the opposite direction relative to the Milky Way (blue). The number of galaxies rotating in ...

NASA's newly-launched SPHEREx space telescope will offer a complementary 'panoramic' view to the JWST's high resolution infrared snapshots, enabling astronomers to study some of the universe's ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have observed enigmatic rings in the planetary nebula NGC 1514, visible in the mid-infrared band. Results of the new observations ...

Perrin (STScI) Balmer and colleagues took this a step further by capturing innovative coronagraphic images of exoplanets in HR 8799 and 51 Eridani — and they did so by using the JWST's ...