Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...

When it comes to telescopes, there are no bigger names than Hubble and Webb, but why have two space telescopes anyway, how ...

Disk galaxies, like our own Milky Way galaxy, commonly consist of both a thick and thin disk of stars—each with different ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago—something never seen before. These observations reveal that galaxies first ...

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

French experts have made an unprecedented discovery with NASA's James Webb Telescope after stumbling across an exoplanet ...

An initial analysis suggests the object could be a young, cold planet with a temperature near 120 degrees Fahrenheit, NASA ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.