Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just solved a conundrum by proving a controversial finding made with the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope more than 20 years ago. In 2003, Hubble provided evidence of ...

The strange blend of surface chemistry on Nix and Hydra raises big question about the evolution of the Pluto system.

Dec. 9, 2024 — New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that a new feature in the universe -- not a flaw in telescope measurements -- may be behind the decade-long mystery of ...

That is until technology caught up to the task. Today, the James Webb Space Telescope can minutely analyze the atmospheric composition of alien worlds many lightyears away. This could be key to ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that a new feature in the universe -- not a flaw in telescope measurements -- may be behind the decade-long mystery of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was launched on Christmas Day, 2021. In January, it arrived at what is planned to be its permanent, high-orbit location about 930,000 miles from Earth. Quickly ...

An international team of astronomers has employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a supermassive Galactic open cluster known as Westerlund 1. Results of the observational campaign ...

The Sombrero galaxy, located approximately 30 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, also hosts about 2,000 globular clusters. Listen to Story The sharp resolution brings the galaxy's ...

A brand new image snapped by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveals the intricate details of the core of the distant "Sombrero Galaxy." This galaxy, officially known as Messier 104 (M104 ...

Hubble shows UGC 10043 galaxy's edge-on view with detailed dust lanes Unique bulge in UGC 10043 may hint at a past galactic interaction Hubble's archival data enables insights into galaxy structure ...

But astronomers may have to rename it the visor galaxy. In a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope, which senses the cosmos in infrared rather than visible light, the namesake sombrero ...