It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

"We have observed giant gas planets, such as Jupiter or Saturn, but in another solar system," explains the leader of this research on the HR 8799 system, located 130 light-years away. The study ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of operation, Webb has captured some truly stunning cosmic vistas ...

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into the dusty shroud of a young nebula alight with star formation on the hunt for "failed star" brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs are stellar ...

This near-infrared image of a portion of the Flame Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope highlights three low-mass objects, seen in the insets to the right. These objects, which are much ...

The team studied Leo P using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which imaged the dwarf galaxy with the instrument's Near-Infrared Camera, or NIRCam. By observing the galaxy in infrared light ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is peering into distant worlds and rewriting our grasp of the cosmos. And in 2025, its budget is on track to get slashed. At January's Meeting of the American ...

Because it's traveling without an interfering star, the James Webb Space Telescope was able to study a solitary, planet-like celestial body in particular detail.