The telescope may well have outdone itself by revealing evidence of life on a world about 120 light years from Earth.

"I had been waiting my entire career for Webb so that we could meaningfully characterize the atmospheres of these smaller ...

Galaxies speckle the heavens like stars in a stunning new photo of the deep and distant universe.

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope for the largest and deepest sample of galaxy groups, some of which were up to ...

Unlike the James Webb Space Telescope's views of other sub-Neptune exoplanets' atmospheres, its look at TOI-421 b was clear. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Dani Player illustration A sweltering planet ...

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mission to make infrared observations. This was the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers detected molecules in K2-18b's atmosphere that are associated with life on Earth. Astronomers at the University of Cambridge in England announced ...

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 ...