If you need to stare into an abyss, it might as well be beautiful.

Credit: NASA / ESA / J. Olmsted (STScI) Scientists didn't build the James Webb Space Telescope simply to find answers. They've sought new questions and mysteries. And they've just found another.

Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, orbiting 1 million miles from Earth, scientists peered closely at the planet AF Lep b, an extremely young gas planet at just 23 million years old.

From its halo-like orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is seeing farther than human eyes have ever seen. In May, astronomers announced that Webb detected the ...

Scientists didn't build the James Webb Space Telescope simply to find answers. They've sought new questions and mysteries. And they've just found another. Using the Webb telescope to peer back ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's latest psychedelic view reveals an exploded star. But this supernova is special. That's because, from our perch in the galaxy, the new stellar blast appears three ...

Now, a new observation from the James Webb Space Telescope appears to have confirmed this. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted a strange “inside-out” galaxy at the beginning of ...

In its short existence, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has transformed our understanding of the universe. It has peered at planets, stars, galaxies and black holes, casting its eye over a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have peered back 13 billion years to discover surprisingly lonely supermassive black hole-powered quasars. The James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST ...

Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope are giving scientists a fuller understanding about the composition and ...

But since NASA's James Webb Space Telescope came online in 2022, astronomers have been surprised to find supermassive black holes inhabiting the early universe - earlier than they had thought ...

Astronomers have released a stunning new image captured with the James Webb Space Telescope, but this view of NGC 602 is more than a pretty picture. It also depicts the home of the first known ...