According to NASA, the NIRCam on the JWST has near infrared imagery that provided high-resolution imagery for the ...

From its halo-like orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is seeing farther than human eyes have ever seen. In May, astronomers announced that Webb detected the most ...

The astronomers estimate that this galaxy will deplete itself of gas in only a few hundred million years.

Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so far in the early universe, one of the strangest are objects that astronomers now call "little red dots." Like the nickname ...

Physicists have been puzzling over conflicting observational results pertaining to the accelerating expansion rate of our Universe—a major discovery recognized by the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. New ...

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, we may have spotted a galactic neighbor with all the right molecular ingredients a mere 40 light-years away. In 2025, we might detect the first signs of life ...

After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 billion (AU$15 billion) James Webb Space Telescope. There had not been such a ...

When NASA launched its $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope in 2021, scientists hailed the mission as the greatest achievement of its kind in over three decades. Soon, however, scientists noticed a ...

Water ice is a crucial building block of planetary systems. We’ve found plenty of it in our own Solar System, in places like Europa, Mars, and wayward comets, but we’ve never made a definitive ...

This new Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features an astounding number of galaxies. The objects in this frame span an incredible range of distances, from stars ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed stunning, unprecedented details of the Red Spider Nebula using its Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). This new image, for the first time, fully ...