james webb space telescope

Are you watching the new season of the Apple TV+ series Foundation and thinking, “Wow, space looks cool. I wish it really was like that”? You’re in luck—it very well could be.Foundation…

Jets of red gas bursting into the cosmos, and a glowing cave of dust: NASA marked a year of discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope Wednesday with a spectacular new image of…

NASA is set Wednesday to unveil a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope a year after it first stunned the world with breathtaking views of the distant cosmos.Webb, the most powerful…

Most celestial objects—from stars and nebulas to quasars and galaxies—emit light at a range of wavelengths. Some include visible light, which is how astronomers are able to photograph them…

Europe's Euclid space telescope blasted off Saturday, kicking off a first-ever mission to shed light on two of the universe's greatest mysteries: dark energy and dark matter.…

The cracks in cosmology were supposed to take a while to appear. But when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) opened its lens last spring, extremely distant yet very bright galaxies…

Scientists just announced that they’ve detected what might be some of the earliest galaxies to form in the universe, a tantalizing discovery made thanks to NASA’s new flagship James Webb…

Mehul Reuben DasJan 02, 2023 18:36:26 ISTThe Peking University in China has unveiled its plan to build the largest optical telescope in Asia and close the gap in astronomy capabilities with…

Anyone would be forgiven for thinking there was little good news in a year dominated by the war in Ukraine as well as the cost-of-living crisis and record…

James Webb led NASA in the 1950s and 60s, during the Cold War–era “Lavender Scare,” when government agencies often enforced policies that discriminated against gay and lesbian federal…