The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

If you notice a subtle change in the atmosphere on the evening of Dec. 24, it might be the vacuum created from every space scientist and enthusiast in the world holding their breath. At 7:20 a.m.

Two more of NASA's space telescopes recently got another look at comet 3I/ATLAS, a captivating interstellar interloper that first captured the world's attention in July. The object – just the third ...

Launched Christmas, 2021, and named after NASA’s Apollo era administrator, the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) is the preeminent instrument of astronomy. It peers deeper into space and reveals more ...

Humanity's understanding of the solar system has evolved dramatically following the advent of spaceflight. Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ...

The best JWST images capture a universe far older, brighter, and more dynamic than anything seen before. Through powerful infrared eyes, the James Webb Space Telescope reveals structures from ...

A comet known as 3I/ATLAS made news when it was confirmed to be the 3rd-ever object observed to have originated outside Earth's solar system. Though the object poses no threat to Earth, astronomers ...