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 astronomy and discovery.

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

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

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

The James Webb Telescope and most of its instruments have an operating temperature of roughly 40 Kelvin – about minus 387 Fahrenheit (minus 233 Celsius).

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.

The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured evidence of it.