NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most powerful telescope ever launched to space. Its mirror is composed of 18 individual segments that have been aligned so accurately, that they ...

Since its deployment, the James Webb Space Telescope has been fine-tuned by experts to maintain its powerful optical ...

From its halo-like orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, the James Webb ... the Hubble Space Telescope can match the breadth of Webb's scientific targets, but Webb's larger mirror allows ...

We live in a golden age of planet discovery ... Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, orbiting 1 million miles from Earth, scientists peered closely at the planet AF Lep b, an extremely ...

Hardegree-Ullman said that while she was completing her undergraduate degree at the University of Arizona in the early 2000s, a member of the institution shared with her that they were involved with ...

Its large mirror collects faint infrared light ... images of objects billions of light-years away. 1,2 The telescope’s cooling mechanism is equally important. Located in the vacuum of space and with ...

A group of astronomers analyzing data from the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) say some of the oldest galaxies in our ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy NGC 7469, which is 90,000 light-years in diameter. The ...

See amazing imagery of the Carina Nebula as captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

"This information will help us fill in the gaps in our knowledge of how brown dwarfs form and their relationship to stars and planets." Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have ...