How do images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear so colorful, and where do the colors come from?

A deep field image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar ...

When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began sending home its first deep-space images, astrophysicists knew that its suite of instruments would glimpse never-before-seen cosmological objects.

James Webb notices three tiny dots, but NASA cannot explain them. These dots are red and scientists have discovered more ...

One of the most distant and, thus, earliest star-killing supernovas ever seen has been discovered by astronomers with the help of the James Webb Space Telescope .After the Big Bang, around 2 ...

Artist Ashley Zelinskie's new VR work is called "Twin Quasar." Two roads diverge between a pair of quasars, and I'm sorry I ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

"We see layers like an onion," says astronomer Josh Peek of the Space Telescope Science Institute in the US. "We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don't see, look ...

Soon after it came online in 2022, Webb observations revealed a population of tiny red objects dubbed little red dots (LRDs).

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is known for looking deep into the universe with an unprecedented level precision and sensitivity. But its images aren't only scientifically useful — they're also ...