We’re essentially opening a new window on the transient universe” said Matthew Siebert of the Space Telescope Science Institute, capturing the awe that swept through the astrophysics community after ...

A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it ...

Nowadays, the dark of night is interspersed with the light of stars. But before the stars were born, did light shine at the ...

FGS took the false-color image during a "roll" test, according to a NASA statement about the image. While Webb's near-infrared camera focused on a star dubbed HD147980, the telescope rolled from ...

It is the sharpest infrared image of the distant universe ever produced, according to NASA. Space Telescope Science Institute / NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO . July 11, 2022, 6:23 PM EDT.

NASA doesn't just point a telescope at space and snap a photo. JWST's data needs to be translated from infrared to visible light — then it becomes an image.

Non-infrared missions like COBE & WMAP saw the universe closer to the Big Bang (~380,000 years after), when there was only microwave background radiation, but no stars or galaxies. Webb sees a few ...

The Hubble constant, a set number that connects a galaxy’s speed to its distance from Earth and tells us how fast the ...

Infrared can also be used to detect the unique fingerprints of particular molecules in the universe, including the basic components of life — water and organic materials frozen in the ices of ...

A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.

For decades, scientists have been searching for the universe's elusive "missing matter," and now they say they finally found ...