The Latest Breaking News from James Webb

High-resolution images from cutting-edge space telescope reveal inner region around central white dwarf

Light from ancient galaxies took more than 13bn years to reach Nasa’s £6.8bn James Webb probe and have provided scientists with stunning images

Close-up photo of the birth of a star, in a cloud complex 360 light years away, is released as James Webb Telescope hits milestone

NASA's James Webb Telescope camera discovered a mystery in the form of a comet with water - but no carbon monoxide

Shimmering in purple like a cherry blossom, the cast-off material once comprised the star's outer layer. It was one of the first made by the telescope when it launched in 2021

Huge systems appear to be far larger than was presumed possible so early after big bang, say scientists

Since the first planet orbiting a star other than the Sun was discovered in 1995, we have realised that planets and planetary systems are more diverse than we ever imagined. Such distant worlds – exoplanets – give us the opportunity to study how planets behave in different situations. And learning…

Scientists have hailed "game-changing" new findings about a far-off exoplanet collected by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope which could help us understand more about other solar systems

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured NASA's most detailed image of the Pillars of Creation that is helping scientists better understand how stars form.

The iconic Pillars of Creation are seen in a kaleidoscope of colour in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared-light view.

Series of 17 concentric dust rings was spawned by Wolf-Rayet 140 binary system thousands of light years away