To estimate distances, the team analyzed the objects' brightnesses across multiple wavelengths to infer redshift, age and ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

Astronomers searching for some of the universe’s first galaxies have uncovered a surprising case of mistaken identity.

Alexandra Vidyuk, CEO at Beyond Earth Ventures, explores the breakthroughs that the James Webb telescope can bring to ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to investigate whether the most distant star identified in the universe is, ...

Since its launch in late 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been glimpsing some of the earliest epochs of cosmic ...

“These mysterious objects are candidate galaxies in the early universe, meaning they could be very early galaxies,” said ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered dormant galaxies with a wide range of masses in ...

Willoughby replied. "Gold reflects infrared." The James Webb Space Telescope will be launched later this month, to be deployed one million miles from Earth. CBS News Now, infrared is a form of heat.

The Phantom Galaxy, as photographed by the James Webb Space Telescope. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI In 1989, NASA began thinking about a successor to the Hubble Telescope.

TRAPPIST-1 d is a rocky world 40 light-years away, orbiting a cool red dwarf at just 2% of Earth’s Sun distance, on the inner ...

Marcia Rieke receives funding from NASA. NASA is scheduled to release the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12, 2022. They’ll mark the beginning of the next era in ...