The age of the Universe is usually presented as a simple number: about 13.8 billion years. It sounds settled, almost tidy.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was launched nearly five years ago, and the first images it revealed made waves across the astronomical world. Those images are still among the most relevant pictures ...

Astronomers found the most distant nuclear disc ever seen, showing galaxies became organized far earlier in the Universe than ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has produced a detailed thermal emission map of LHS 3844 b, a rocky super-Earth orbiting a cool M-dwarf star roughly 49 light-years away — offering the most precise ...

The finding pushes one of the cornerstones of galaxy evolution much further back in cosmic history than previously known, ...

To celebrate the fourth birthday of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA has released a stunning image of the strangely shaped galaxy Centaurus A, the site of a cosmic collision 2 billion years ago.

NASA has released the most detailed images of the Centaurus A galaxy we've ever seen, captured by the James Webb telescope.

For the first time in human history, we're watching a new solar system come to life. Not in theory, but in real, observable detail. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and its incredible ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum welcomes two new acquisitions to the collection—the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe model. The Pathfinder is a ...

An international research team has revealed the first images of the Orion Nebula captured with the James Webb Space Telescope, leaving astronomers “blown away ...

A white dwarf is usually thought of as the quiet remnant left behind after a star has exhausted its fuel and shed much of itself into space. By that stage, any worlds that once orbited nearby are ...