World's largest digital camera observes cosmos, capturing detailed images of galaxies, asteroids, and stars changing ...

A fourth penned: "That’s the best picture of Uranus I’ve ever seen! Such a gorgeous planet." The planet appeared simply as a 'placid, solid blue ball' when picked up by Voyager 2's visible wavelengths ...

Images of Titan were taken by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope on July 11, 2023 (top row) and the ground-based W.M. Keck Observatories on July, 14 2023 (bottom row).

Astronomers have zoomed in on Jupiter 's poles to get a better look at the gas giant planet's auroras — 100 times brighter than the Northern Lights on Earth. These alien light shows are not only ...

And the James Webb Space Telescope, also renowned for spectacular images, isn’t sensitive to UV light at all. (It excels at observing in infrared, which allows it to probe dust-enshrouded ...

The telescope may operate for 20 years, and it's off to a good start. Let's take a look at the best of Webb so far. Here, in no particular order, are 35 of the best Webb images we've seen to date.

A narrow slice of starlight has raised suspense about the possibility of company in the cosmos. While the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) watched the exoplanet K2-18b glide across its parent star, ...

These guys published a paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, detailing observations made with the help of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on a planet called K2-18 b.

Updated: Apr 12, 2025 / 12:15 PM PDT (KRON) — NASA’s James Webb telescope has made the first-known observation of a planet swallowed up by a star, with “surprising” results, scientists say.

According to the space agency, data suggests that instead of the star expanding to consume the body, the planet’s orbit gradually decayed, bringing it closer to the giant ball of gas. The event, first ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s observations of what is thought to be the first ever recorded planetary engulfment event revealed a hot accretion disk surrounding the star, with an ...

Every year the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)—which runs the telescope—enlists hundreds of astronomers to help choose where JWST’s wandering eye should be pointed next. On March ...