Apologies, birds of the cosmos — the James Webb Space Telescope has set aside ornithology and officially entered its entomology era, a stunning new image of the Butterfly Nebula shows. Glittering some ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted something that should not survive in one of the harshest environments imaginable: a thick atmosphere clinging to a molten, ultra-hot super-Earth. Instead of ...

Earlier telescopes, including Hubble, revealed the Helix as a serene, eye-shaped glow. Webb presents a more intimate view, ...

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for signs of an atmosphere—and potentially life-supporting conditions. Early James ...

"There is a growing chasm between theory and observation related to the early universe, which presents compelling questions ...