This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb ...

Scientists studying one of the earliest known galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope have found that the universe's Era of Reionization may have occurred much earlier than previously thought.

The image of the amazing light show, that looks like a tornado in the stars, combines observations from two different cameras ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez Space is phantasmagorical. Astronomers using the powerful ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month features a rare cosmic phenomenon called an Einstein ring. What at first appears to be a single, strangely shaped galaxy is ...

Finding alien life won’t be as dramatic as a flying saucer landing on the White House lawn – it’ll be NASA scientists holding ...

A cosmic coincidence has led to one of the most amazing images ever captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The dramatic outflow from a newborn star, known as Herbig-Haro 49/50 (HH 49/50 ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled an awe-inspiring celestial spectacle of a spiral galaxy interacting with a plume of dust and gas from a newborn star. NASA said in a statement it was ...