“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

The universe is truly a bright and beautiful place. The cosmos is populated with the birth of stars and the swirling dust of ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

The team tested their model by examining three quasars observed by the James Webb Space Telescope ... With more data from telescopes like JWST, the model’s predictions could soon be tested ...

It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...

Commemorated initially by the Hubble Space Telescope’s images in 1995, these towering gas and dust formations never fail to elicit immense awe. The James Webb Space Telescope ... of the hydrogen gas ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope ... risk was more like 1.6% at the ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

Any telescope on the planet can contribute to planetary defense: If an astronomer anywhere on Earth spies an object that looks like an asteroid ... the multipurpose James Webb Space Telescope ...