Scientists are rethinking how to detect alien life by focusing on planets vastly different from Earth. Instead of searching ...

Yet another proposal would use SpaceX's Starship to build a lunar base-hotel-telescope hybrid featuring a mega-observatory stronger than the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ...

Astronomers have long believed that the swirling disks of gas and dust that form planets around young stars last only about ...

University of Arizona astronomers have learned more about a surprisingly mature galaxy that existed when the universe was ...

The James Webb Space Telescope successfully launched ... the universe would have struggled to make the periodic table and build up things. But that’s not what we found. Instead, the universe ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic ... called Sagittarius A*, building on past evidence of its highly energetic activity. While black holes are invisible, the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers ... The new JWST investigation might finally put an end to the confusion, however, building upon a decade of previous studies conducted ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has identified free-floating brown dwarfs in the Flame Nebula, some as small as two to ...

Astronomers have peered back to a time when the universe was just less than 300 million years old. The research team, using JWST revealed something extraordinary in the galaxy: significant amounts of ...