This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...
A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana ...
Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...
The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...
Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...
Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified the most distant known quiescent galaxy, revealing ...