NASA Space Telescopes

Researchers have confirmed an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another star, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope for the first time

How the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a surprisingly bright, complex and element-filled early universe

New observations of WASP-39 b reveal a never-before-seen molecule in the atmosphere of a planet sulfur dioxide among other details.The telescope's array of highly sensitive instruments was trained on the atmosphere of a "hot Saturn" -- a planet about as massive as Saturn orbiting a star some 700 light-years away -- known as WASP-39 b. While JWST and other space telescopes, including Hubble and Spitzer, previously have revealed isolated ingredients of this broiling planet's atmosphere, the new readings provide a full menu of atoms, molecules, and even signs of active chemistry and clouds."The clarity of the signals from a number of different molecules in the data is remarkable," says Mercedes Lopez-Morales, an astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and one of the scientists who contributed to the new results."We had predicted that we were going to see many of those signals, but still, when I first saw the data, I was in awe," Lopez-Morales adds.The ...

This view of L1527 provides a window into what our Sun and solar system looked like in their infancy

For the first time, Webb and Hubble have simultaneously captured imagery from the same target in the cosmos

Webb's unmatched infrared sensitivity has now confirmed the presence of carbon dioxide on this planet as well

President Joe Biden on Monday will reveal the first image from NASA's new space telescope the deepest view of the cosmos ever captured. The first image from the USD 10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is going to show the farthest humanity has ever seen in both time and distance, closer to the dawn of the universe and the edge of the cosmos. That image will be followed Tuesday by the release of four more galactic beauty shots from the telescope's initial outward gazes. NASA said Biden will show a deep field" image. That shot is likely to be be filled with lots of stars, with massive galaxies in the foreground distorting the light of the objects behind, telescoping them and making faint and extremely distant galaxies visible. Part of the image will be of light from not too long after the Big Bang. The images to be released Tuesday include a view of a giant gaseous planet outside our solar system, two images of a nebula where stars are born and die in spectacular beauty and an upda

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope team fully deployed its 21-foot, gold-coated primary mirror, successfully completing the final stage of all major spacecraft deployments

NASA technicians have successfully fully deployed the massive sunshield protecting the James Webb Space Telescope, the US space agency announced

NASA is shooting for next Friday Christmas Eve to launch its newest space telescope.

First came the amazing pictures, then the video. Now Nasa is sharing sounds of its little helicopter humming through the thin Martian air

Discovery of Icarus through gravitational lensing has initiated a new way for astronomers to study individual stars in distant galaxies

The wide-field infrared survey telescope will aid researchers in their efforts to explore the evolution of the cosmos, NASA said

K2-33b, is slightly larger than Neptune and whips tightly around its star every five days

Crab Nebula is the most historic and intensively studied remnants of a supernova - an exploding star

Hubble observations represent the first time such a three-body system has been confirmed using the gravitational micro lensing technique

Summer Worden, a former Air Force intelligence officer living in Kansas, has been in the midst of a bitter separation and parenting dispute for much of the past year

One of the sky's brightest nebulas, the Orion Nebula, is visible to the naked eye