Searching for exomoons—moons that orbit around another planet—was one of the most exciting capabilities expected of the James ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

Grant and Cugno used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to pick out the infrared glow from the disk of gas and dust ...

The JWST has spotted Alaknanda, a massive, well-formed grand-design spiral galaxy that existed just 1.5 billion years after ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

When peering into the cosmic past, the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a supermassive black hole that doesn't have a ...

JWST infrared technology pierces cosmic dust with unmatched clarity, revealing hidden star nurseries and structures no ...

A nested series of dusty spirals is captured swirling around a mighty triple star system containing two of the rarest stars ...

Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the ...

Apep was first spotted in optical light in 2018. Only the innermost spiral was visible through early images. JWST’s MIRI ...

Next-generation telescopes like JWST and the 30-meter telescope increase the likelihood of detecting extraterrestrial life ...