The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...
A deep field image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA ...
Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...
The Hubble Space Telescope was carried to space inside the space shuttle Discovery and then released into low-Earth ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a feeding black hole in the early universe that seems to be eating 40 times faster than is theoretically possible.
Vega, one of the brightest, most famous and most important stars in the night sky, has no evidence of giant planets around it ...
Since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope has identified early galaxies that shine unexpectedly brightly, suggesting ...
The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but ...
The telescope is the length of a large school bus and weighs as much as two adult elephants. Hubble is still in service ...
These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.