The Latest Breaking News from James Webb

NASA's James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have captured views of the DART spacecraft intentionally smashing into an asteroid in a mission trialling technology for protecting Earth from potential asteroid collisions.

It's hoped the detailed, infrared images will give astronomers new insight into how stars are formed.

At a mere 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Tarantula Nebula is the largest and brightest star-forming region in the Local Group, as scientists comfortingly call the galaxies nearest our Milky Way. The cloud is home to the hottest, most massive stars known. James Webb has sent…

For the first time, astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to capture an image of a gas giant outside our galaxy

NASA just released the James Webb Space Telescope's first infrared images of an exoplanet, and it could shed light on how solar systems evolve.

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What the telescope’s incredible images show about how it operates – and the universe itself

In today’s newsletter: After the James Webb space telescope sends extraordinary images of Jupiter, astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst explains why it’s so important

A team in Edinburgh are behind the most groundbreaking and scientifically important images captured of our universe to date. The Edinburgh Royal Observatory team talks about the James Webb Space Telescope, early STEM education, and Scottish innovation in an exclusive tour and interview.

We’ve now seen the first data from the James Webb Space Telescope. It has observed the atmospheres of distant planets, groups of nearby galaxies, galaxy light bent by unseen dark matter, and clouds of gas and dust in stellar nurseries.

NASA recently explained why the James Webb Space Telescope is honing in on “Hot Jupiter” exoplanets like WASP-121b.