This artist concept depicts a reconstruction of what the Firefly Sparkle galaxy looked like about 600 million years after the big bang if it wasn’t stretched and distorted by a natural effect known as ...

The JWST is the largest, most powerful space telescope ever deployed. It sees further into the infrared than any previous infrared telescope and has extremely high resolution. That means that when it ...

Scientists are rethinking how to detect alien life by focusing on planets vastly different from Earth. Instead of searching ...

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

As Bajaj puts it: "These James Webb Space Telescope data sets are so beautiful." ...

The study builds on previous research investigating different biosignature gases, including dimethyl sulfide, another ...

Observations about the directions in which galaxies turn have a head-spinning implication: our entire Universe might exist ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...

Over 50,000 submissions are made for images on U.S. stamps every year, and out of those, about 40 are turned into real stamps ...

A new study looking at observations by the JWST of the early universe has thrown up a new and intriguing mystery; the majority of galaxies appear to be rotating in the same direction. This finding, ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the colourful ejections of two protostars at the centre of Lynds 483.