Launched on December 25, 2021, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful and complex space telescope. Unlike the Hubble Space Telescope, it does not orbit around Earth. Rather, it orbits the Sun at a distance of 1 million miles from Earth, which is called the second Lagrange point. It is responsible for studying every phase of our universe's history.
NASA's JWST reveals ancient monster stars that could be the ancestors of black holes
The James Webb Space Telescope has identified massive, short-lived stars that are essentially 'seeds' for the universe's first supermassive black holes.
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The cosmos up close: 5 stunning James Webb Space Telescope images from 2025
From planet nurseries to cosmic rings, James Webb’s 2025 images reveal the universe in stunning detail.
Dec 26, 2025
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captures rare sight of comet smoke around a nearby star
Cicero Lu, a science fellow at Gemini Observatory, found a cloud of warm carbon monoxide gas circling the star HD 131488.
Dec 24, 2025
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope finds a lemon-shaped exoplanet with a never-before-seen atmosphere
Officially labelled PSR J2322-2650b, this Jupiter-mass planet has been deformed into a bizarre lemon shape by the sheer, crushing gravity of its host star.
Dec 17, 2025
James Webb Telescope solves 20-year cosmic mystery, finds evidence of 'monster stars' from early universe
Webb uncovers evidence of giant primordial stars that may explain how early black holes formed less than a billion years after the Big Bang.
Dec 16, 2025
Scorching 'lava world' detected by James Webb Telescope surprises scientists with a thick atmosphere
The data suggest this small, super-hot world is shrouded in a thick layer of gas, likely hovering above a planet-wide ocean of magma.
Dec 13, 2025
NASA's James Webb Telescope witnesses stellar explosion from just 730 million years after the Big Bang
Previously, the most ancient supernova ever confirmed dated back to when the universe was 1.8 billion years old.
Dec 10, 2025
5 mind-blowing discoveries NASA's James Webb Space Telescope made that Hubble Telescope couldn't
The James Webb captures a more panoramic image of stars and galaxies, spectacular visuals that were missed by most other observatories.
Dec 4, 2025
NASA's James Webb Telescope spots 'super-puff' exoplanet leaking substantial volume of helium into space
The exoplanet is located seven times closer to its star than Mercury is to our own planet.
Dec 4, 2025
NASA's JWST discovers massive Milky Way-like spiral galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang
The discovery comes as a surprise to scientists, as they believed the formation of such well-organized spiral galaxies took billions of years.
Dec 4, 2025