The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the most powerful space observatory ever built, designed to peer 13.5 billion years into the past and uncover the secrets of the universe. Launched aboard the ...

In 2019, data from the Hubble Space Telescope proved this wasn’t just a fluke. Then, in 2023, even sharper measurements from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... Scientists rely on two ...

The James Webb Space telescope has changed astronomy ... they are made of beryllium and coated with gold in order to support infrared reflectivity. A thin layer of glass covers the coating ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

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

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope zoomed in on extremely faint objects, called brown dwarfs, in the Flame Nebula. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / M. Meyer (University of Michigan) There's a class ...

This infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was taken by the onboard Near-Infrared Camera for the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, or JADES, program. The NIRCam data was ...

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 ...

A new James Webb Space Telescope study finds that Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central black hole, constantly emits light from its swirling accretion disk. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf ...