Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy NGC 7469, which is 90,000 light-years in diameter. The galaxy is "roughly 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellation ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb ...

James Webb Space Telescope unveils star-forming Leo P galaxy The team studied Leo P using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which imaged the dwarf galaxy with the instrument's Near-Infrared ...

The team studied Leo P using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which imaged the dwarf galaxy with the instrument's Near-Infrared Camera, or NIRCam. By observing the galaxy in infrared light ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to take the longest look yet at our galaxy's supermassive black hole — and it's frothing with unusual activity. Situated 26,000 light ...

Why it's so special: This James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image has helped astronomers untangle a long-standing mystery about how planets form. The mystery arose more than 20 years ago ...

Contained within a small galaxy located 5.3 million light-years away are big clues about how stars can form. In fact, scientists didn't really expect that stars would even be able to still form at ...