Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.

Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.

Stranded astronauts and celebrity space tourism have piqued interest in space — and a photography exhibition in the museum is ...

it is currently the most powerful telescope in space. Unlike its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope, JWST specialises in capturing infrared light, which lets it peer through cosmic dust clouds ...

In what may be the most significant clue to alien planet life yet, scientists studying K2-18b have detected two sulfur-based ...

Sanity seems conspicuously absent from his actions. What mind, driven by a profound disregard for history and human dignity, ...

Let's start with the human eye. The human eye has an angular resolution of about 1 arcminute. That's pretty impressive. Take a circle surrounding you on the horizon, divide it into 360 little bits, ...

The massive dome measures 305 feet (93 meters) in diameter, or about the size of a football field and stands 263 feet (80 ...

By contrast, Deimos is tiny, with a radius of 6 km, and quite a bit further out, more than 23,000 km from the surface. It is ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting ... and distant to otherwise see," ESA explained. It's a clever way to combine the capability of the most powerful space telescope ever ...

The world's most famous telescope is celebrating in style with new views of Mars, nebulas and a galaxy that reminds us of home.

When I was in grade school I was fascinated by the world’s largest telescope: the 200-inch-diameter Hale Reflector on Palomar Mountain near San Diego.