NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted the earliest and most distant galaxy known to researchers, according to a news release from the space agency. The galaxy was spotted as astronomers and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured this stunning image of the gas and dust around a newborn star in the constellation ...

Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the unusual star-forming timeline of dwarf galaxy Leo P. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Kristen McQuinn Most small galaxies that stopped making ...

The image features several bright galaxies in the background, as well as a highly detailed capture of LEDA 2046648, a billion-year-old spiral galaxy. Launched in December 2021, Webb began its ...

The Godzilla Nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in the constellation Sagittarius that was imaged by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission ...

The spaces between stars in our galaxy are enigmatic realms filled with vast, diffuse clouds of gas and dust. These clouds tend to remain invisible — but the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where planets formed in the early universe.

Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so far ... to be compact—much smaller than our Milky Way galaxy. And their color is reddish, although their light ...

One of the mysteries of our galaxy and every other ... Answers have eluded astronomers for centuries, but new images by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest an answer to all those ...

The European Space Agency has released a new image of a distant whirlpool galaxy, taken by the James Webb telescope. Even though the galaxy - also know as M51 - has been pictured before ...

These clouds tend to remain invisible — but the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has managed to capture one in a rare moment when it was lit up. Peering at a dusty pocket of our galaxy about ...