There may come a day when we grow weary of JWST images. But it's not today. Today, we can lose…
Most planets and moons in the Solar System are clearly dead and totally unsuitable for life. Earth is the only…
Ever wondered what our young Sun might have looked like in its infancy some five billion years ago? The audacious…
We're all basking in the success of the James Webb Space Telescope. It's fulfilling its promise as our most powerful…
When you launch humanity's most powerful telescope, you expect results. The JWST has delivered excellent results by detecting ancient galaxies,…
There's an unusual object near the Milky Way's heart that astronomers call "The Brick." It's a massive cloud of gas…
In 1987, a supernova suddenly appeared in the Large Magellanic Cloud and was studied by astronomers worldwide. Although the detonating…
JWST is the most powerful instrument astronomers have to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, looking for trace gases that might…
Thanks to data obtained by Webb, astronomers have confirmed that MACS0647-star-1 is the second farthest star observed to date.
A new study considers how future astrobiology studies could search for life "as we don't know it" on exoplanets.