New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has been truly revolutionary ... and rapidly growing areas of astronomy: the study of planets beyond the solar system, or extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets." ...

The U.S. Postal Service has issued a new set of stamps celebrating the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space ...

NASA is launching a new space telescope more powerful than its James Webb counterpart which will be able to shed more light ...

Life as we know it is based on carbon chemistry, and now the James Webb Space Telescope may have shown where much of that carbon originates. The discovery is thanks to shells of carbon dust ...

The new Webb exoplanet clocks in at just 99 percent the diameter of Earth. NASA announced the discovery on its website on Wednesday, stating that the planet is now classified as LHS 475 b ...

Webb's fiery image is an edge-on protoplanetary disc, known as HH 30, around a newly formed star that is hidden by the dark disc in the middle. Astronomers are looking to this cosmic object to study ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed a planet unlike any other. GJ 1214 b, located 48 light-years away in Ophiuchus, defies typical planetary classifications. With a dense ...

Why it's so special: This James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image has helped astronomers untangle a long-standing mystery about how planets form. The mystery arose more than 20 years ago ...