Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...

NASA revealed the first science-quality images from the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12, 2022, marking the beginning of the observatory's tenure.

The galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, as captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Because infrared is a form of heat, it had to get cold—minus 400 degrees.

The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of ...

A video from the European Space Agency (ESA) shows the James Webb Space Telescope being unboxed from its shipping container and unpacked ahead of its launch.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb's First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is ...

NASA released full color James Webb Space Telescope images of the Carina Nebula, exoplanet WASP-96 b, Southern Ring Nebula, Stephan’s Quintet and SMACS 0723. Here's a preview of the 5 targets ...

L2 is a strangely "clean" area in space — but the telescope is still at risk of being hit by micrometeoroids. NASA doesn't mind — here's why.

And so we have to put the James Webb Space Telescope really far away from the earth so that it wouldn't see the Earth's warmth but that has a downside. It's too far away, it's a million of miles ...

Launched in 2021 on Christmas Day, the James Webb Space Telescope is the most complex, ... whose data turned out to be crisp and clean and revealed some incredible things.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is transforming astronomy with its groundbreaking discoveries. For 12 years, photographer Chris Gunn documented the complex effort to build it.