What’s more, Webb used its Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument to observe glowing interstellar gas and dust illuminated by a supernova explosion approximately 350 years ago. The material glows in ...

A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...

Explore the James Webb Space Telescope's incredible discovery: a cosmic alignment revealing the teenage years of our Milky ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any spacecraft ever has, surviving expected temperatures of 1,800 ...

With NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, future observations can reveal even more about our breathtaking cosmic neighbor.

But NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was recently able to do so with the help of gravity. Gravity always bends space. It’s that curving of space that causes us to feel like we are being pulled toward ...

The discovery was made using ALMA and the James Webb Telescope. ALMA’s antennas and JWST’s powerful mirror combined for this feat. Astronomers spent hours focusing on seemingly empty sky regions.

The next great space telescope will study distant galaxies ... part of the Roman science team, said as he and Webb senior project scientist Jane Rigby prepared to enter the Clean Room. “Whatever dark ...

A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data from multiple surveys to compile one of the largest samples of “little red dots” (LRDs) to date. (NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI ...