The most powerful telescope in history. The James Webb Space Telescope's "jewel-filled" photos are stunning.

The exoplanet, discovered in 2009, remained elusive due to dense clouds. Now, scientists have peered through with the James ...

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are icy bodies that vary widely in size, from large dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris—each ...

Scientists at NASA for the first time have been able to observe the make up of Pluto and other small and icy celestial bodies ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals unprecedented details of it.

It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...

Astronomers plan to use the James Webb space-based telescope starting next month to get more information on the 2024 YR4 asteroid, which has jumped to the top of the risk list of near-Earth objects.

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

This is the last time the seven planets will appear together in the night sky until 2040. Here's when it's happening – and ...

The four-planet lineup that began in January concludes by mid- to late February, as Saturn sinks increasingly lower in the ...