It was put on Webb to diagnose and measure any blur in its images. Even nanometres of distortion in Webb’s 18 hexagonal ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared camera (NIRCam) captured stunning imagery of Neptune. It is the "clearest view ...

A new collage from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals eight dazzling examples of gravitational lensing.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope finds a red supergiant star before it exploded, offering new clues to why their supernovas are rarely seen.

Astronomy news today is packed with discoveries about the Sun, including tiny solar loops and hidden engines that drive solar ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...

"It shows that Makemake is not an inactive remnant of the outer solar system, but a dynamic body where methane ice is still ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured the most massive star-forming cloud in the Milky Way's galactic central region. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Adam Ginsburg / Nazar Budaiev / Taehwa Yoo / ...

That veil of secrecy has now been lifted by the James Webb Space Telescope, which has discovered bizarre, never-before-seen patterns in Saturn’s skies. Peering Into the Invisible On November 29, 2024, ...

NASA's powerful James Webb Space telescope has revealed a colorful spread of stars and cosmic dust in the Milky Way's most active star-forming region. The telescope was studying Sagittarius B2, a ...

Stars, gas and cosmic dust in the Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud glow in near-infrared light, captured by Webb’s NIRCam instrument. The darkest areas of the image are not empty space but are areas ...