"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery of interacting elliptical and spiral galaxies known as Arp 107. Credit: ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) has captured stunning views of Herbig Haro object 797 (HH 797). “Herbig-Haro objects are luminous regions surrounding newborn stars ...

HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

First discovered in 2009, GJ 1214 b is described by the JWT team as being “sub-Neptune-sized” - smaller than the outermost ...

Certain extreme planets are called ultra-short period objects if they're very close to their stars and orbit them in mere hours, like K2-22b.

James Webb’s latest images of the Pillars of Creation reveal stunning details, but astronomers suspect these cosmic towers ...

NASA's SPHEREx observatory undergoes testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in August 2024. Launching no earlier than Feb. 27 ...

The Vatican Observatory’s summer school, known as “Specola,” has already selected students for its next edition in June.

Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...