The James Webb Space telescope has changed astronomy ... hitching a ride on an Ariane 5 rocket. The JWST then traveled for 30 days, traversing almost a million miles (1.5 million kilometers ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system. The James Webb Space Telescope separates from Arianespace's Ariane 5 ...

"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

A deep dive into the star-forming Flame Nebula by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed free-floating, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a surprising galaxy rotation pattern, where two-thirds rotate clockwise and one-third counterclockwise. This unexpected uniformity suggests a deeper ...

After discovering this curious world in 2020, scientists have now used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into the exoplanet's atmosphere and better grasp how such a world works.

Ariane 5 was retired in 2023 and Europe has not been able to use Russia's Soyuz rocket for satellite launches since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Ariane 6 underwent a successful test in July ...

PARIS (AP) — An Ariane 6 rocket roared skyward with a French military reconnaissance satellite aboard Thursday in the first commercial flight for the European heavy-lift launcher. The rocket ...