Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb ...

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

NASA released stunning images of the NGC 1514 nebula, showcasing the most vivid depiction of its dual rings ever captured.

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Imagery of Saturn captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is superimposed over an image captured by Hubble. "Yellows ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...

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 ...

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