The Latest Breaking News from JWST

Two separate studies recently pointed JWST's instruments at Chariklo, the only asteroid in our Solar System with its own rings.

IRAS is a sometimes forgotten spacecraft that proved that infrared astronomy had a bright future.

JWST is the most powerful space telescope ever flown. Here's how researched created the gigantic scope's first products.

The galaxies formed less than 400 million years after the universe formed.

Two stars are apparent at the center of the mesmerizing Southern Ring Nebula. But astronomers have uncovered three other hidden stars.

The study of exoplanets, worlds which orbit stars other than our sun, is currently being transformed by the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). We will shortly gain our first insight into conditions on rocky, potentially Earth-like worlds beyond our solar system. One of these distant worlds might host life.…

Are we alone in the universe? This is a question that has intrigued humans for centuries and inspired countless studies and works of fiction. But are we getting closer to finding this out? Now that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is in operation, we might have taken one giant…

The clouds of the distant brown dwarf contain silicate material, making it a quite unusual atmospheric composition.

One important mode used on the MIRI instrument on the massive telescope isn't working, and NASA is trying to assess if it can be fixed.