The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has now covered 65 percent of its journey through space before it arrives at its desired orbit around the sun—and members of the public can track its ...

Safely launched an on its way to Lagrangian Point 2, the James Webb Telescope is hardly idle. As of Tuesday, it had already passed several mission-critical milestones.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a small moon quietly circling Uranus, a world already known for its unusual ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed extraordinary new details in the heart of the famous Butterfly Nebula, one of the ...

Astronomers and space fans around the world can breathe a sigh of relief: The James Webb Space Telescope is now fully deployed. The $10 billion NASA observatory unfolded the second "wing" of its ...

The cosmic butterfly has also produced plenty of PAHs – large hydrocarbon molecules that could play a key early role in ...

Data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is changing what we thought we knew about our universe. Only three years after ...

The telescope is headed for a point where gravity will balance its orbital motion, locking it in almost perfect unison with the Earth's orbit around the sun.

The James Webb Space Telescope Has Launched: Now Comes the Hard Part After years of delay, the most ambitious observatory ever built has at last left Earth.

After several tense days of unfurling and clicking its various parts into place, the biggest and most sophisticated space telescope ever launched is now complete. On 8 January, NASA’s James Webb ...

The James Webb Space Telescope traveled nearly 1.6 million km (1 million mi.) to reach a destination that, in some ways, is nowhere at all. On Jan. 24, just shy of one month after its Christmas ...