The U.S. National Science Foundation Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's most powerful solar telescope, operated by ...

The boundless potential of astronomical discovery contrasts sharply with the backwardness and reaction promoted by Trump and ...

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.

An astonishing discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope may rewrite our understanding of the Universe’s early years. A ...

Lucian of Samosatam was probably the first to write about travel to outer space and aliens in his 160 AD work: "A True Story" ...

Last week, a team of scientists claimed to have discovered possible signs of life on a nearby planet. in fact, their evidence ...

While the Webb Telescope watched exoplanet K2‑18b glide across its parent star, sulfur‑bearing gases appeared in the planet’s ...

Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the ...

These atmospheric markers have positioned K2-18b as one of the most promising candidates in the search for extraterrestrial life. The planet, which orbits within the habitable zone of its red dwarf ...

An image depicts a hycean world - an exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star with a liquid water ocean beneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere. The exoplanet K2-18 b, analyzed using the James Webb Space ...

An immense water world, right in our cosmic backyard, could be teeming with alien life. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has found a pair of gases in a distant alien world's ...