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

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

Why it's so special: What are the smallest stars? A deep dive into the star-forming Flame Nebula by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed free-floating, Jupiter-size objects that ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, M. Meyer (University of Michigan), A. Pagan (STScI) The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into the dusty shroud of a young nebula alight with star formation ...

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 discovery by Webb provides strong evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, much like ...

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 ...

SPHEREx will act like a partner for the James Webb Space Telescope. While Webb is a targeted telescope, meaning it observes a small area but in greater detail, SPHEREx is a survey telescope that ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a 'rogue' cosmic object barrelling through our galaxy without a star, and covered ...

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 ...