The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured photos of one of the earliest supernovas ever seen, with features appearing like grains and knots found in a cut of wood. "Once upon a time ...

New measurements from the Webb telescope – Nasa’s most powerful space observatory ... That might mean there are unknown forces at work in the universe, for instance, or that there is ...

Shifting air pockets in the atmosphere block and distort light, limiting the view from even the most powerful Earth-bound instruments. Orbital telescopes function as eyes in the sky that allow ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant ...

Atop a mountain in the high desert of Chile, the U.S. has been developing a very, very powerful telescope connected to the world's largest digital camera. Once fully operational, the Vera Rubin ...

Once they pinpoint the collision, they turn to larger, more powerful telescopes across the world. These probe the collision in much greater detail, and at different wavelengths. This process is ...

The James Webb Space Telescope can look deeper (and earlier) into the cosmos than any telescope before it. How much do you ...

The telescope captured the infrared glow of the cosmic material, revealing delicate patterns. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the most powerful telescope developed by mankind, is ...

Originally known as the "Next Generation Space Telescope," the telescope was somewhat controversially named after James E. Webb, one of NASA's early administrators. Webb ran NASA from 1961 to 1968 ...