Dr Eric Smith, the programme scientist for the Webb project, said he thought the public had already grasped the significance of the new telescope. "The design of Webb, the way Webb looks ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most powerful ... to a completely aligned system bounded only by the optical design. "Though the precise alignment of the telescope was ...

Brian Greene (Cosmic String Theory) and Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel have collaborated on a National Geographic coffee-table ...

The new James Webb telescope has passed a major milestone ... There were many who doubted the wisdom of a design that included so many motors, gears, pulleys and cables. But years of testing ...

Planetary scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have trained it on Saturn ... of Physics and Astronomy in the U.K., who helped design these observations eight years ago.

These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.

This is why especially space-based observatories such as the James Webb Space Telescope love to hang around in these spots.

The James Webb Space Telescope's latest psychedelic view reveals an exploded star. But this supernova is special. That's because, from our perch in the galaxy, the new stellar blast appears three ...

and how does its design compare to previous space telescopes such as the Hubble? The communication needs of the James Webb Space Telescope provided engineers with a particularly daunting challenge.

An international team of astronomers used the Webb Telescope to search for so-called "emission-line galaxies" from the first ...