The Hubble Space Telescope captures interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in visible light when the comet was 277 million miles away in ...

The folks at NASA/ESA have released their favorite image snapped by the James Webb Space Telescope in October, which depicts ...

The first deep field image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA ...

JWST observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveal micron-sized, dust-rich water ice grains whose spectra resemble icy ...

A team of astronomers scouring the distant universe for ancient objects that formed shortly after the Big Bang stumbled upon an unexpected discovery: a single emission line coming from an unidentified ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured a spectacular star-forming region glowing 161,000 light-years from Earth in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

Arp 220 is one of the brightest infrared galaxies in the nearby universe, with intense star formation fueled by a collision ...

James Webb Space Telescope image of 14 Herculis c, a planet orbiting a star 60 lightyears away that's one of the strangest ever seen.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the uneven shape of WASP-17b’s atmosphere, showing how extreme heat and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s “little red dots” have turned into one of the strangest early-universe puzzles in ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Astronomers built the James Webb Space Telescope to pick up faint light from the first billion years after the Big Bang, a chaotic era ...