In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mission to make infrared observations. This was the ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...

Rings of a dying star are revealed in the nebula NGC 1514. The Webb Telescope reveals a chaotic scene long hidden from view.

James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M.

The potential discovery of life elsewhere is down to the unprecedented sensitivity of Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope.

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" ...