Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb ...

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. 1.

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent ...

NASA’s James Webb telescope has made the first-known observation of a planet swallowed up by a star, with “surprising” ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has pointed its infrared optics at the 'Crystal Ball Nebula' NGC 1514, a planetary nebula ...

The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

Observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have provided a surprising twist in the narrative surrounding what is ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers detected molecules ... Some, called rogue planets, don't even orbit a star, but are floating through the cosmos untethered. Astronomers have ...

K2-18b’s orbit around the star ... a report published Wednesday that analyzed observations by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The peer-reviewed report in the Astrophysical Journal Letters ...

When the planet finally fell in toward the star, it splashed away layers of gas from the star’s outer atmosphere, and this gas gradually cooled into cold dust which now sits as a cloud around the star ...