A NASA space telescope on a mission to map millions of galaxies has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach ...

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

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

NAS's James Webb Space Telescope has captured Neptune’s glowing auroras in the best detail yet. Hints of auroras were first ...

"Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it came to detecting auroras on the giant planets," said the European Space ...

The rare cosmic phenomenon, called an Einstein ring, occurs when massive objects can bend light due to their gravitational ...

Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by ...

The NASA James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning image of an Einstein ring, an optical phenomenon created by ...