Watch how JW Telescope detects temperature on Trappist 1 b. Credit: Space.com | animation courtesy: ESO/L. Calçada / Space ...

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

Astronomers are closely monitoring the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS after new observations indicated that it partially disintegrated following its close approach to the Sun, raising questions about ...

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 ...

Artist’s impression of SIMP 0136. Credit: Anastasiia Nahurna. Drifting alone through space, about 20 light-years away, is a world that refuses to fit in. SIMP 0136 isn’t a star because it’s too small ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured massive galaxy cluster RX J2129. located about 3.2 billion light-years away. A ‘supernova-hosting galaxy’ can be seen three times, at 3 different points in time ...

"Instead of sending astronauts to bolt on new parts, they managed to fix things with code." Telescope has been suffering from blurry vision. But a team of Australian researchers created an AI ...

Scientists keep returning to one star: Proxima Centauri. It’s the nearest neighbor to our Sun, just over four light-years away, and already home to a rocky planet. That planet, Proxima b, sits close ...

Trapped in a gravitational push and pull between Jupiter and other Jovian moons, Io is constantly being stretched and compressed. Heat generated by these contortions has melted pockets of the moon's ...

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

Two Sydney PhD students have pulled off a remarkable space science feat from Earth—using AI-driven software to correct image blurring in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Their innovation, called ...