The James Webb Space Telescope is starting to turn a long‑standing cosmic mystery into something that looks almost tangible.

From its halo-like orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is seeing farther than human eyes have ever seen. In May, astronomers announced that Webb detected the most ...

New data from the James Webb telescope suggests that Bennu and Ryugu — two asteroids recently visited by sample-return missions — are both fragments of a single massive "parent." When you purchase ...

The James Webb Space Telescope, a $10 billion project by NASA, faced an unexpected challenge post-launch when its images started to blur, compromising its deep-space observations. In a remarkable turn ...

A comet known as 3I/ATLAS made news when it was confirmed to be the 3rd-ever object observed to have originated outside Earth's solar system. Though the object poses no threat to Earth, astronomers ...

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Located approximately 4,000 light-years from Earth, the Cat’s Paw Nebula is a massive star-forming region in the constellation Scorpius. The James Webb Space Telescope far surpasses the abilities of ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed yet another marvel from deep in outer space. A galaxy named MoM-z14 has taken the title of most distant galaxy the telescope has captured. It is a ...

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NASA's Webb space telescope (Hubble's successor) and Mars rover Curiosity have been included in Time magazine's list of the ...

After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope. There had not been such a leap forward in ...

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 ...