Now, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers may have cracked this puzzle, finding the first evidence of a ...

Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.

"It's amazing that after 35 years, Hubble still holds a unique capability as a top workhorse for science discoveries and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured NGC 346, a star-forming region about 210,000 light years away. One of the features of ...

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Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has pointed its infrared optics at the 'Crystal Ball Nebula' NGC 1514, a planetary nebula ...

The researchers found strong evidence of a chemical called dimethyl sulfide (DMS) in the planet’s atmosphere. On Earth, DMS ...

A new survey of distant galaxies undertaken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of the "cosmic noon"—when galaxies in the young universe underwent something of an awkward ...

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mission to make infrared observations. This was the ...

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows thousands of glittering galaxies that it spied by peering through ...