Find out what's up in your night sky during January 2025 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide. Looking for a telescope for the next night sky event? We recommend the Celestron ...

The hunt for alien life is about to get a massive boost with the launch of a state-of-the-art space telescope designed to identify exoplanets that could harbour the right conditions for habitability.

Two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 collide, forming carbon-rich dust. Webb captured 17 expanding dust shells, revealing ...

“We wanted to determine how often our Sun produces superflares; however, the duration of direct solar observations is relatively short,” Valeriy Vasilyev, from the Max Planck Institute for Solar ...

"I never dreamed of Webb seeing them in such large numbers." ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest telescope in space.

The next great space telescope will study distant galaxies and faraway planets from an orbital outpost about a million miles from Earth. But first it has to be put together, piece by piece, in a ...

Artwork: Webb should be ready for full science operations in June or July Thirty days after it was launched, the James Webb telescope has arrived at the position in space where it will observe the ...

Why it's so special: This iconic montage features images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune captured between 2014 and 2024 as part of the Hubble Space Telescope's Outer Planet Atmospheres ...