A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows thousands of glittering galaxies that it spied by peering through ...

The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright objects on telescope images. The stars follow a nine-year orbit and are ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent final stages of a dying star's life.

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE mission, to make infrared observations. This was the latest in a line of space-based, infrared observatories, and it cost about ...

Lingering Brightness Provides Evidence for How the Planet Met Its Demise Each year, scientists from around the world compete for a chance to use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Proposals go through ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into the deepest cosmos and reveal new insights about the early universe. It's ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just gave a cosmic mystery a serious plot twist. The event in question—a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has not only delivered awe-inspiring images - it’s rewriting cosmic history. From revealing ...

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy NGC 7469, which is 90,000 light-years in diameter. The galaxy is "roughly 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellation ...

In a new study, a team of scientists used observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study Sagittarius C in ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based ...