Webb investigates complex heart of a cosmic butterfly

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has revealed new details in the core of the Butterfly Nebula, NGC 6302. 

New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team has identified a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus, expanding the planet’s known satellite family to 29. 

NASA’s Webb Finds New Evidence for Planet Around Closest Solar Twin

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star in the stellar system closest to our own Sun. 

This Could Be The First Witnessed Birth of a Supermassive Black Hole

A pair of galaxies whose light has traveled for 8.3 billion years contains what astronomers believe is a supermassive black hole in the act of forming.

Webb finds 1st exoplanet lurking near young star

JWST has discovered and directly imaged its first exoplanet. It’s the first one Webb has found that other telescopes hadn’t previously found.

Small alien world most Jupiter-like planet ever seen

Astronomers have detected the smallest and most solar system-like planet ever directly imaged around another star.

Image Reveals the Most Distant Galaxy Ever Seen

The record-breaking galaxy is revealing secrets about the first stars and their unexpected chemical fingerprints.

JWST reveals secrets of a sub-Neptune exoplanet

New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.

The Coldest Planet Ever Seen Is Circling a Stellar Corpse

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly detected the faint glow of a planet that’s colder than any world whose light has been directly observed.

Almost Every Speck of Light in This Incredible Image Is a Galaxy

Most of the lights in the new JWST-Hubble composite image are not bright stars, but galaxies, stretching back almost as far across space-time as the beginning of the Universe.

Hats Off to NASA's Webb: Sombrero Galaxy Dazzles in New Image

In a new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a galaxy named for its resemblance to a broad-brimmed Mexican hat appears more like an archery target.

Pushing Webb to Its Limits May Have Revealed Earliest Galaxies

Since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began science operations, astronomers have observed galaxies that existed more than 13 billion years ago.

Galaxies die earlier than expected

For a long time, scientists thought that only actively star-forming galaxies should be observed in the very early Universe. The James Webb space telescope now reveals that galaxies stopped forming stars earlier than expected. 

Webb Detects Lyman-Apha Emission from Galaxy in Early Universe

The Lyman-apha light from JADES-GS-z13-1 has taken nearly 13.47 billion years to reach us, as it dates back to just 330 million years after the Big Bang.

NASA's Webb Captures Neptune's Auroras For First Time

For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured bright auroral activity on Neptune.