The infrared James Webb telescope is 100 times more powerful than the Hubble telescope. It has 18 separate mirror segments made of ultra-lightweight beryllium. This telescope launched into space on ...

Space-based telescopes are remarkable. Their view isn't obscured by the weather in our atmosphere, and so they can capture ...

Pointy Perfection Ever notice something about those images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope — other than the fact ...

Pocock, who has worked on the JWST, catalogues the science behind its most stunning images in her new book, Webb's Universe.

This pair of galaxies is currently in the process of colliding and merging into one, a process that will take around a billion years.

Durham University’s Prof Richard Massey peers into the history of space telescopy and finds the unexpected views are often the most astounding.

An artist's illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope observing the cosmos 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA-GSFC / Adriana M. Gutierrez (CI Lab) - Giant mirror: Webb's mirror ...

Giant mirror: Webb's mirror, which captures light, is over 21 feet across. That's over two-and-a-half times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope's mirror. Capturing more light allows Webb to see ...

Brown dwarf candidates discovered in star cluster NGC 602, revealing cosmic mysteries beyond the Milky Way with Webb and ...

Once blocked from view, the most massive young star cluster in the Milky Way has finally been revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope.

It seems reasonable that there are moons around exoplanets in other stellar systems, and now we're going to start looking for ...

Using the Webb telescope to peer back into the earliest periods of the universe, researchers spotted a handful of some of the brightest objects in the cosmos — quasars — adrift in the empty voids of ...