The James Webb Space Telescope can look deeper (and earlier) into the cosmos than any telescope before it. How much do you ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has detected a new grand-design spiral ...

Originally known as the "Next Generation Space Telescope," the telescope was somewhat controversially named after James E. Webb, one of NASA's early administrators. Webb ran NASA from 1961 to 1968 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured massive galaxy cluster RX J2129. located about 3.2 billion light-years away. A ‘supernova-hosting galaxy’ can be seen three times, at 3 different points in time ...

Astronomers can study lensed galaxies in detail, like the Firefly Sparkle galaxy. This 2023 image is from the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-InfraRed Camera). Researchers used Webb to ...

Here are some key events to look forward to in space and astronomy in the year ... Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who ...

Day 25 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: the most distant known galaxy. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have found a record-breaking distant galaxy observed just 290 ...

Researchers just found an unexpected galaxy using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The large swirl of stars is known as a grand-design spiral galaxy, and its exceptionally advanced age could ...

Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong, part of China's three-person Shenzhou 19 mission, spent more than nine hours spacewalking outside the Tiangong space station from late Monday night (Dec. 16 ...

Black holes are some of the most extreme objects in the universe, and a new mission proposal suggests launching a space telescope specifically to study them. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT ...

A top Chinese space expert who specialised in weather monitoring and early warning systems died in a car crash in Beijing on Sunday night aged 62. Zhang Xiaoxin, a space expert who had long been ...

Why it's so special: This iconic montage features images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune captured between 2014 and 2024 as part of the Hubble Space Telescope's Outer Planet Atmospheres ...