"We're going to find one-in-a-million things over and over and over again," a NASA scientist recently predicted.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have gotten a glimpse at the mechanisms that supermassive black ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This infrared view of Saturn was captured Nov. 29, 2024, by ...

Zoom into the James Webb Space Telescope's view of a star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud known as NGC 346.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new imagery of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. It is 11,000 light-years away in ...

Astronomers have identified the first stellar-mass black hole in Omega Centauri, using 20 years of Hubble data and refined measurements from the James Webb Space Telescope.

This March 20, 2026, image of Messier 64, or the Black Eye Galaxy, is a composite view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope. It shows Messier 64 captured at near- and ...

When the James Webb Space Telescope unfurls its mirror a million and a half kilometres out in space four years from now, it will be the culmination of nearly two decades of planning by John Mather. He ...

Earlier visible-light observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could not show the galaxy's central region because dust blocked the view.

Hubble and Webb to get a boost with a more advanced probe ever built by NASA to hunt exoplanets, black holes and dark matter ...

Scheduled to launch Aug. 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, NASA's Roman telescope will image far more sky than Hubble ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observed gas swirling near the supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 4696, revealing ...