The glittering towers of cosmic dust and gas at the heart of the Eagle Nebula have inspired awe for decades, since they were first imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope.…
"The James Webb Telescope: Are We Alone?" on The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper offers an inside look at the most powerful telescope ever built. The show premieres Sunday, June…
An artist's concept of WASP-107 b shows turbulent atmospheric mixing in the planet's gaseous envelope. Credit: Roberto Molar Candanosa/Johns Hopkins UniversityJames Webb Space Telescope The data reveal that WASP-107 b…
Astronomers observed a giant asteroid collision in Beta Pictoris using data from the Webb and Spitzer telescopes. The event, which occurred 20 years ago, offers new insights into early planet…
from Nicole Colon and Christopher Stark, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center June 9, 2024NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is investigating potentially habitable exoplanets in our galaxy, focusing on small planets…
This is an artist's impression of a young star surrounded by a disk of gas and dust. An international team of astronomers has used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to…
A problem with one of the Hubble Space Telescope's three remaining gyroscopes, critical for pointing and locking onto targets, has prompted mission managers to switch to a backup control mode…
This infrared image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (also called Webb or JWST) was taken by the NIRCam (Near Infrared Camera) for the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, or…
This illustration shows a galaxy forming just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, when the gas was a mixture of transparent and opaque during the era of…
Astronomers believe they have solved a peculiar and well-established space mystery, NASA announced this week. Mainly using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, two groups of researchers may have…