It can seem like JWST arrived out of nowhere, but the telescope has been the collective effort of tens of thousands of scientists over decades. Here are some of this year’s best new images.

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party—and it is weird, wild and wonderful.

Unlike most asteroids that ... hypotheses generated by the JWST observations. The spacecraft will carry instruments capable ...

Last year’s stamps were of two of JWST’s most well-known images–the Pillars of Creation ... has also given astronomers detailed looks at the atmospheres of planets outside our solar system.

A team of astronomers led by Ryo Tazaki at the University of Tokyo in Japan combined JWST observations with ALMA and Hubble Space Telescope data and found distinct structures nested within one another ...