Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...

The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mission to make infrared observations. This was the ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows thousands of glittering galaxies that it spied by peering through ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

The newly detected Zhúlóng galaxy shares many similar features with the Milky Way galaxy and has been named after a mythical ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond ...

The potential discovery of life elsewhere is down to the unprecedented sensitivity of Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope.