The Latest Breaking News from James Webb Space Telescope

A red ball of fire, glowing menacingly against a black background. This, prominent French scientist Etienne Klein declared, was the latest astonishing picture taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, showing Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Sun. In fact, the object came from Klein's fridge!

NEW images from the James Webb Space Telescope have been released.

Those spectacular pictures of galaxies forming at a time very near the origin of the universe from the James Webb Space Telescope came at a pretty price: $9.7 billion, to be precise. It is fair to ask, “Is the Webb telescope project worth the price?”

Just a week after its first images were shown to the world, the James Webb Space Telescope may have found a galaxy that existed 13.5 billion years ago, a scientist who analyzed the data said Wednesday. Known as GLASS-z13, the galaxy dates back to 300 million years after the Big…

In the week since the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope were unveiled, astronomers have been poring through all the observations it's made so far--and they're happily overwhelmed.

In recent weeks the world has been awed by the first series of colour images to emerge from the James Webb Space Telescope. A celestial concert, the images of swirling galaxies and conflagrations of gas presented an unprecedented view of the early cosmos. US President Joe Biden spoke of the…

Astronomers anticipated that micrometeoroids would hit the telescope, but the damage caused so far was unexpected

The telescope’s development process cost $10 billion over 17 years.

One of the James Webb Space Telescope's mirror segments suffered unexpected damage from a piece of space dust. Will there be more?