The cutting-edge observatory is charged with seeing some of the earliest visible light, and the recent image achieves a new ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

The research shows how the stars were behaving eight billion years ago. The post Over 40 new stars discovered thanks to this ...

A phenomenon called gravitational lensing turned a galaxy into a "hall of mirrors of cosmic proportions," allowing for the discovery.

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...

Stunning new photographs taken by Wellesley College astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have unveiled a newly ...

A galaxy lurking in the ... of Firefly Sparkle and the star clusters within. (NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford/STScI) This suggests that the formation of stars is not simultaneous, since different ...

New images show a galaxy forming that is similar to what ... has magnified and stretched Firefly Sparkle's star clusters into a line of bright sparks, giving it its name. For Webb to resolve ...

The James Webb Space Telescope launched three years ago on December 25 from Korou spaceport in French Guiana. The first ...