A small piece of metal engineered in Australia helped sharpen the James Webb telescope's vision from a million miles away.

The second most distant object ever spotted by the James Webb telescope may be a 'dark star' powered by dark matter rather than nuclear fusion. By looking at the wavelengths of light picked up by the ...

A team of astronomers has discovered the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe, surrounding ...

For the first time, the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk around a planet has been revealed. The James Webb Space Telescope has, for the first time, measured the carbon-rich concoction that ...

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled a breathtaking cosmic landscape that looks more like a scene from fantasy than reality. What appears to be a glowing mountain peak shrouded in mist is ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified an original star that caused a supernova for the first time. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Charles Kilpatrick / Aswin Suresh Astronomers say they've ...

Peering into deep space, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers find places to study gravitational lensing, an effect in which massive objects such as galaxies warp space-time itself ...

Benjamin Pope receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Big Questions Institute. After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting ...