"This is a crucial step towards characterizing giant planets beyond our solar system." ...

"This data provides us with rare insight into how galaxies were transformed in the early universe." ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has produced the first-ever three-dimensional images of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, revealing a chaotic and shimmering world of infrared auroras.

Woven through the universe are forces, often unseen, that dictate its grand design. For example, at the very heart of nearly ...

"We found an unexpected chemical complexity, with abundances far higher than predicted by current theoretical models." ...

The telescope primarily detects light in the infrared in order to observe sources such as the first galaxies and protostars.

Webb Telescope finds crystalline water ice around star HD 181327. This discovery could reveal how icy bodies contribute to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory have captured the clearest image yet of a galaxy cluster in the making, seen when the universe was only one billion years old.

Astronomers used James Webb Space Telescope data to determine the density of the universe's most mysterious "stuff." ...

If a pair of black holes coalesce into one, much of that vast energy can be released in a few seconds.

Observations of a distant quasar reveal that supermassive black holes may suppress star formation across intergalactic distances.