The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach ...

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

Astronomers had observed auroras on all other planets in the Solar System, and spotting one in Neptune completes the list.

Uncover the insights gained from the Webb telescope about early galaxies and their role in illuminating the universe.

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb ...

The rare cosmic phenomenon, called an Einstein ring, occurs when massive objects can bend light due to their gravitational ...

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

The NASA James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning image of an Einstein ring, an optical phenomenon created by ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully detected auroras on Neptune for the first time ever, finishing a job that ...