The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach ...

To do that, humans have built some of the most spectacular astronomical observatories around the world, capable of peering into the vast void of space and capturing images that astound. The James Webb ...

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

An infamous asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope recently went to get a look at it anyway.

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

Stars are the architects of nearly all the chemical elements in the universe, including ones crucial to life as we know it, ...

2024 YR4 may not make catastrophic history, but it did set a new record for the JWST as the smallest object ever targeted by ...

NASA's James Webb telescope took an emergency look at the asteroid scientists feared would smash into Earth in 2032 ...

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...