The planet's upper atmosphere has been mapped for the first time, revealing one of the solar system's most enigmatic members.

"This is a crucial step towards characterizing giant planets beyond our solar system." ...

The telescope observed the ice giant for a full rotation, revealing how temperature and charged particles vary with altitude.

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Observations of a distant quasar reveal that supermassive black holes may suppress star formation across intergalactic distances.

The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located ...

Webb Telescope finds crystalline water ice around star HD 181327. This discovery could reveal how icy bodies contribute to ...

The telescope primarily detects light in the infrared in order to observe sources such as the first galaxies and protostars.

When NASA launched its $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope in 2021, scientists hailed the mission as the greatest achievement of its kind in over three decades. Soon, however, scientists noticed a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was designed to look back in time and study galaxies that existed shortly after the Big Bang. In so doing, scientists hoped to gain a better understanding of how ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...