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

See amazing views of the M74, NGC 7496, IC 5332, NGC 1365, and NGC 1433 galaxies captured using the James Webb Space Telescope.The Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby Galaxies (PHANGS) ...

The telescope can peek into the past, learning how the universe looked 13 billion years ago. It uses real gold-plated mirrors to pierce through the vastness of the cosmos. Telescope mirrors ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has been truly revolutionary- it is now hard to imagine what life was like without it!" The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has had an impact on astronomy since ...

The Priority Mail 'Spiral Galaxy' and Priority Mail Express 'Star Cluster' stamps are now available in panes of four at post ...

The U.S. Postal Service has issued a new set of stamps celebrating the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space ...

Originally known as the "Next Generation Space Telescope," the telescope was somewhat controversially named after James E. Webb, one of NASA's early administrators. Webb ran NASA from 1961 to 1968 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope took more than two decades and $10 billion to build. It's one of NASA's most expensive science projects. A combination of difficult engineering and mismanagement led ...

Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so far in the early universe, one of the strangest are objects that astronomers now call "little red dots." Like the ...

The Webb images show dense sheets of gas and dust stretching across hundreds of astronomical units. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured highly detailed images showing the complex layers ...