A nested series of dusty spirals is captured swirling around a mighty triple star system containing two of the rarest stars ...

A comet hurtling through the solar system from interstellar space is exactly what it appears to be, NASA officials said ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four ...

The James Webb Telescope is reshaping our understanding of distant worlds, revealing exoplanet atmospheres, potential ...

James Webb’s newest images of Neptune have exposed structures no telescope has ever recorded. Sharp infrared scans show cloud ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of the iconic Hubble Ultra Deep Field using its MIRI and NIRCam instruments. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Östlin, P. G.

After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 billion (AU$15 billion) James Webb Space Telescope. There had not been such a ...

Benjamin Pope receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Big Questions Institute. After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting ...

TALKING ABOUT TELESCOPES: The James Webb Space Telescope peers deeper into space and reveals more heavenly secrets than any instrument ever produced. (Submitted Photo) Launched Christmas, 2021, and ...

Astronomers have found an atmosphere where they least expected it: clinging to an exoplanet that’s too small, too hot and too old to have air, at least in theory. Observations by the James Webb Space ...

Stretching across 8 light-years, the rare stellar eruption is about twice the distance between our sun and the next nearest stars. The stellar jet is in the nebula Sharpless 2-284, which contains a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detected gas on the distant dwarf planet, Makemake. Credit: NASA / ESA / Southwest Research Institute / A. Parker illustration Scientists have ...