A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting the sun 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez In death, there can be great beauty. Astronomers ...

Brammer (Niels Bohr Institute), Dawn JWST Archive Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This "twin ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, the team detected chemical fingerprints within the atmosphere of K2-18b that suggest the presence of dimethyl sulfide or DMS, and potentially dimethyl ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a British-U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" indicating ...

In a groundbreaking development for astrophysics, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured an unprecedented view of NGC 1514, a planetary nebula located approximately 1,500 light ...

April's new moon darkens the skies, making it the perfect time to pick up one of the best telescopes for deep space. As stunning as our own solar system can be, what if you want to gaze a little ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected evidence of life on a planet trillions of miles from Earth, according to a report released Wednesday by a Cambridge University research team ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an ...

Every now and then, the star at the center of a planetary system exhausts its hydrogen supply and collapses into a red giant. As the star's outer layers expand, they encroach on planets' orbits ...

It’s not every day the universe surprises astronomers. But a recent discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has done just that. A galaxy from the early cosmos appears to mirror our ...