The James Webb Space Telescope is not circling our planet the way most people imagine a satellite does. Instead, NASA parked this observatory in a carefully chosen deep space orbit that lets it study ...

Out in the cosmic landscape, planetary nebulas would offer the perfect Halloween doors to knock on. They're spooky tricksters in their names, as they have nothing to do with planets at all and are ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's main goal is to detect faint light from distant galaxies, but it recently observed one of the brightest objects in the night sky: Mars. The space observatory captured ...

This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month brings us a scene from the distant universe. Pictured here ...

Launched Christmas, 2021, and named after NASA’s Apollo era administrator, the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) is the preeminent instrument of astronomy. It peers deeper into space and reveals more ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first detailed look at a carbon-rich disk surrounding the exoplanet CT Cha b, located about 625 light-years from Earth. The observations reveal a ...

Three years ago, the James Webb Space Telescope detected "little red dots". Their existence is only ephemeral, as they appear ...

The best JWST images capture a universe far older, brighter, and more dynamic than anything seen before. Through powerful infrared eyes, the James Webb Space Telescope reveals structures from ...