Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...

When it comes to telescopes, there are no bigger names than Hubble and Webb, but why have two space telescopes anyway, how ...

Step outside on a clear night, trace the hazy stripe of the Milky Way and enjoy the comfortable illusion that you more or less grasp our place in the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The perplexing Milky Way 'twin' dates to 1 billion years after the Big Bang ...

A Milky Way twin like never before found by James Webb Space Telescope “Zhúlóng stands out due to its striking resemblance to the Milky Way in terms of shape, size, and stellar mass,” says Xiao.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago—something never seen before. These observations reveal that galaxies first ...

An initial analysis suggests the object could be a young, cold planet with a temperature near 120 degrees Fahrenheit, NASA ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of an exoplanet for the first time since it began science operations ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed two large planets at different stages of infancy - one with an atmosphere brimming with dusty clouds and the other encircled by a disk of material - ...