How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's ancient "little red dot" galaxies have been seen as a sign of "broken cosmology." Feeding ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes because if their components warm and expand it can mean that the shape of ...

Since its debut in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has dazzled viewers with its infrared images of galaxies, nebulae, ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

Advances and the arrival of new technologies have allowed astronomy, the science that studies celestial bodies and phenomena ...