The Latest Breaking News from Webb

The telescope was launched into space from French Guiana on Christmas Day 2021

It has been a groundbreaking year for astronomy with Wednesday marking the one-year anniversary of the first color images.

NASA has announced a new senior project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, Dr. Jane Rigby, who helped get the telescope up and running in space.

Astronomers have discovered more than 5,000 planets outside of the solar system to date. The grand question is whether any of these planets are home to life. To find the answer, astronomers will likely need more powerful telescopes than exist today.

Stunning new NASA images depict our universe in all its visible, and invisible, glory thanks to the combined powers of the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.

Saturn's rings are disappearing, and we don't know how much longer they will be around. The James Webb Space Telescope may be able to help pin down an answer.

NGC 1566 is a barred spiral galaxy 40 million light years away, and it was one of the James Webb Space Telescope's first batch of science targets.

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 everywhere, the world has one – the James Webb Space Telescope.

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…

According to NASA, the image is set within the vast Eagle Nebula, which lies 6,500 light years away from Earth.

Webb's ability to image exoplanet atmospheres means we're on the cusp of detecting life on distant worlds.