The James Webb Space Telescope does not circle Earth like most satellites. Instead, it operates from a distant point in space chosen for stability and constant darkness. That location allows Webb to ...

Because the planets in our solar system are so bright, they flood the telescope's sensors with more light than they can ...

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Since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope has been peering deeper into the universe than any telescope before it. Its powerful infrared instruments allow scientists to observe galaxies that ...

New images from the James Webb telescope show a galaxy with a trio of supermassive black holes. Two of them appear to be locked in a tight tango.

Two Sydney PhD students have pulled off a remarkable space science feat from Earth—using AI-driven software to correct image blurring in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Their innovation, called ...

Astronomers at the University of Missouri, using the James Webb Space Telescope, have uncovered 300 unusually bright cosmic objects that may be some of the earliest galaxies ever formed. By applying ...

New findings from the James Webb Space Telescope include cloudy weather on an exoplanet, and clues to the origins of one of Neptune's moons. And I'm Scott Detrow here with another edition of Spacing ...