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 ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled an awe-inspiring celestial spectacle of a spiral galaxy interacting with a plume of dust and gas from a newborn star. NASA said in a statement it was ...

HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...

Uncover the insights gained from the Webb telescope about early galaxies and their role in illuminating the universe.

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb ...