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James Webb Telescope captures colorful, glittering image of the chaotic center of the Milky Way galaxy, revealing never-before-seen details
The new image of the Milky Way from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope could help scientists underst…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope broke its own record to discover the oldest black hole yet, but it has astronomers even more confused about the beginning of the universe
Webb spotted the oldest black hole ever discovered, breaking its own record. But the black hole is …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope imaged a stunning supernova remnant and revealed details Hubble couldn't capture
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently observed the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Jenny McG…
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NASA's Webb Space Telescope shows off its most detailed image of Uranus yet, revealing storms and a 21-year-long winter in exquisite detail
Surprising details in this new portrait of the planet Uranus show why NASA's James Webb Space Teles…
Paul Squire,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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NASA's James Webb and X-ray telescopes combine powers to discover the most distant black hole ever in a rare state of infancy
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope found the most distant black hole ever growing near the dawn of t…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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What the James Webb Space Telescope's discoveries on another planet mean and don't mean — for the search for alien life
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed that exoplanet K2-18 b may be an ocean world, and there'…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's James Webb telescope discovers the earliest strand of a mysterious 'cosmic web' that links galaxies
The James Webb Space Telescope spotted a long, narrow filament of ten galaxies that existed 830 mil…
Marianne Guenot
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New photo from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals the colors of Earendel, the farthest star ever detected
The star, which appears as a red dot inside a streak in the image, is more than twice as hot as the…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Morgan Mc…
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Side-by-side images of a whirlpool galaxy show details NASA's James Webb telescope captured but Hubble missed
The images show the majestic spiral arms of the M51, a galaxy located 27 million light-years away i…
Ellie Zolfagharifard,Marianne…
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New James Webb Space Telescope image shows 45,000 galaxies in unprecedented detail
The James Webb Space Telescope turned its sights on a special region in space, where it has reveale…
Jessica Orwig
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted a question mark in deep space. It could be 2 galaxies colliding.
Webb stumbled upon an orange question mark in the distant cosmos. Is the universe taunting us? No, …
Sonam Sheth,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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The James Webb Space Telescope found a molecular building block of life hiding in the Orion Nebula
New images from the Webb Telescope revealed methyl cation, or CH3+ molecule, in a young star system…
Natalie Musumeci,Morgan McFal…
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James Webb Space Telescope discovers Jupiter has a jet stream whipping around the planet at 320 mph, twice as fast as Earth's fiercest hurricanes
NASA scientists have discovered a 3,000-mile-wide jet stream around Jupiter's equator, thanks to th…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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NASA's James Webb telescope captured the spectacular death throes of a star 2,600 light year away
The image shows a doughnut-shaped structure of glowing gas known as the Ring Nebula in unprecedente…
Marianne Guenot
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captures stunning image of the wreckage of 2 galaxies crashing into each other
Galaxy NGC 3256 was formed after a 'head-on' collision between two galaxies around 500 million year…
Marianne Guenot
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James Webb telescope detects an asteroid roughly the size of Rome's Colosseum
An asteroid roughly the size of Rome's Colosseum, between 300 and 650 feet, or 100 and 200 metres, …
PTI
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A new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope blows past Hubble again, revealing an iconic supernova in unprecedented detail
The supernova, which was first discovered in 1987, has a keyhole-like formation, full of clumpy gas…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Grace E…
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From first images from the Hubble to the James Webb telescope, here's how far we've come in three decades
The first image captured by the James Webb telescope has been released to the public. The image sho…
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All about Super-Earths, their dwarf stars and how they're more habitable than our earth
I'm a professor of astronomy who studies galactic cores, distant galaxies, astrobiology and ex…
PTI
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A dreamy new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows the birth of 50 sun-like stars
Webb's vibrant one-year anniversary image shows about 50 stars in various stages of formation about…