This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...
Witness the breathtaking beauty of interacting galaxies through 7 stunning images captured by NASA's James Webb Telescope.
Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct images of four planets in a star system 130 ...
The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.
Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...
Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...
A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb Space Telescope. This rare cosmic overlap forms a swirling ...
Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...
After over 35 years of trying, NASA finally confirmed Neptune has auroras. They did this when astronomers were able to ...
The James Webb Space Telescope photographs a rare Einstein ring, a cosmic deception formed by gravitational lensing, giving ...
SPHEREx is somewhat similar to the Webb telescope as it also observes the universe in infrared light, which is invisible to the eye but can be felt as heat. With its six detectors, it can break down ...
NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.