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James Webb telescope spots odd disk around star that could shatter planet formation theoriesAstronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a planet-forming disk that almost entirely lacks water, challenging prevailing theories.
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'Butterfly Nebula' spreads its wings in dazzling new James Webb telescope imageIn a dazzling new photo, the James Webb Space Telescope zooms in on the Butterfly Nebula — the dying gasps of one of the hottest stars in the sky, which could hold clues to Earth's origins.
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James Webb telescope images reveal there's something strange with interstellar comet 3I/ATLASNASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made its first observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing that the comet appears to be unusually rich in carbon dioxide.
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James Webb Space Telescope uncovers 300 mysteriously luminous objects. Are they galaxies or something else?Deep-field images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed 300 unusually energetic early galaxy candidates, offering new insights into how the universe formed and evolved over 13 billion years ago.
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James Webb telescope pinpoints brightest FRB ever detectedAstronomers using the James Webb telescope alongside Canada's CHIME telescope have pinpointed the origin of one of the brightest blasts of radio energy ever detected in Earth's skies.
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Asteroids Bennu and Ryugu may be long lost siblings, JWST hintsNew data from the James Webb telescope suggests that Bennu and Ryugu — two asteroids recently visited by sample-return missions — are both fragments of a single massive "parent".
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Uranus has a new, hidden moon, James Webb Space Telescope revealsUranus' 29th moon was hidden inside the planet's dark inner rings, new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal.
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Oops! Earendel, most distant star ever discovered, may not actually be a star, James Webb Telescope revealsAstronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to investigate whether the most distant star identified in the universe is, in fact, a star cluster.
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Astronomers find bizarre 'Cosmic Grapes' galaxy in the early universe. Here's why that's a big deal (photo)A distant galaxy nicknamed "Cosmic Grapes" is bursting with massive star-forming clumps — far more than expected — offering fresh clues about how galaxies grew in the early universe.
