STORY: The James Webb Space Telescope - launched to study things like the formation of the earliest galaxies - is going to be ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured photos of one of the earliest supernovas ever seen, with features appearing like grains and knots found in a cut of wood. "Once upon a time ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just spotted what might be some of the oldest galaxies ever to exist—basically, ...

NASA is making emergency preparations to deal with a ‘city-killing’ asteroid after the odds of it smashing into Earth ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is known for looking deep into the universe with an unprecedented level precision and sensitivity. But its images aren't only scientifically useful — they're ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar monster 20 times the mass of the sun. Supernovas in the early universe ...

Recent astronomical observations by ALMA and JWST have detected emissions from the distant galaxy GHZ2, located over 13 billion light-years away. This ...