Pope Leo XIV has declared that the discoveries made since the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope mean it is an "exciting time to be an astronomer". Speaking to young astronomers at a summer ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows Arp 107, home to two merging galaxies, with two bright cores and a "bridge" of dust and gas forming a cosmic smiley face.

Long after the human authors of Sacred Scripture pondered the moment of creation with “their poetic and religious imagination,” Pope Leo XIV said, modern scientists continue to explore the universe ...

Pope Leo XIV has declared that the discoveries made since the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope mean it is an "exciting time to be an astronomer". Speaking to young astronomers at a summer ...

Vatican Observatory Summer School welcomes students from 21 nations to explore the universe with JWST, igniting passion for ...

New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula.

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

The James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) is celebrating three years of transformational science with a striking new image of ...

Last week the James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of what they believe to be a previously unknown exoplanet ...

The Hubble telescope was launched on April 24, 1990, via the space shuttle Discovery from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. It circles the Earth at a speed of about 17,000mph (27,300kph) in low ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, astronomers said Wednesday, capturing rare direct images of the relatively small world in the Earth's galactic backyard.