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NASA's groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a mysterious object that's freely floating through interstellar space.

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James Webb Spots Mysterious Object Crossing Space Between Stars

By Victor Tangermann

The James Webb Space Telescope is slated to have a huge percentage of its budget cut amid other slashes at NASA.

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Even NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Is Getting Its Budget Slashed

By Noor Al-Sibai

If there's anything that can deliver us a sign of aliens, you'd put your money on it being the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Cornell Astronomer Hoping the James Webb Will Confirm Alien Life in 2025

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have spotted a black hole that's gobbling up matter at a seemingly impossible rate, surpassing previous limits.

There’s Something Impossible About This Ravenous Black Hole, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

There's an interesting reason that stars captured by the James Webb Space Telescope look so unique and spiky.

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Once You Notice This Weird Thing About James Webb Space Telescope Images, You Won’t Be Able to Unsee It

By Frank Landymore

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery for the first time of a galaxy growing from the "inside-out."

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James Webb Telescope Captures Spectacular Images of “Inside-Out” Galaxy Being Born

By Noor Al-Sibai

The James Webb Space Telescope was used to spot a new kind of alien planet: a watery "steam world" with an atmosphere of hot water vapor.

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James Webb Spots First-Ever Alien “Steam World”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The gas-spewing body spotted by the James Webb is a type of object known as a centaur that is somewhere between a comet and an asteroid.

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James Webb Telescope Spots Bizarre Object That’s Spewing Out Jets of Gases

By Frank Landymore

There’s Something Seriously Weird About This Supernova

There’s Something Seriously Weird About This Supernova

By Noor Al-Sibai

Using readings from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detected chemicals on the surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon.

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The James Webb Telescope Just Made a Fascinating Discovery About Pluto’s Huge Icy Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Captured by the James Webb, the Little Red Dots indicate galaxies we've never seen before, and what's inside them is unclear.

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Scientists Puzzled by Hundreds of Little Red Dots in James Webb Images of Distant Universe

By Frank Landymore

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of a giant nearby planet whose surface is quite literally freezing.

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James Webb Snaps Image of Planet in Neighboring Star System

By Noor Al-Sibai

The James Webb Space Telescope imaged a shiny quasar some eight billion light years away with the helping of gravitational lensing.

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James Webb Spots Distant Space Object With Jewel-Like Lights

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers using the James Webb have gleaned the secrets of Jupiter's overlooked region of upper atmosphere near its enormous storm.

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James Webb Observes Mysterious Structures Above Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

By Frank Landymore

Two giant asteroids may have collided into each other, kicking up lots of dust, with James Webb Space Telescope having captured evidence.

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James Webb Spots Epic Collision Between Giant Asteroids

By Sharon Adarlo

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope claim they have found two of the most distant galaxies in the universe.

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James Webb Space Telescope Uncovers Most Distant Galaxy Ever Observed

By Sharon Adarlo

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers observed the birth of some of the youngest galaxies ever witnessed.

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James Webb Just Observed the Universe’s Youngest Galaxies Being Born

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is sensitive enough to tell the weather on an exoplanet from 280 light-years away.

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James Webb Detects Weather on Exoplanet From 280 Light Years Away

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has turned its full attention towards the distant ocean-covered world called K2-18b last week.

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James Webb Turns to Examine Planet Showing Potential Sign of Life

By Victor Tangermann

One of the world's foremost ET experts believes that with the help of the Webb Telescope, we're closer to discovering alien life than ever.

SETI Scientist Says Announcement of Alien Life Could Be Imminent

By Noor Al-Sibai

The James Webb Space Telescope's dazzling imagery actually arrives to researchers in black-and-white and is colored via educated guessing.

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The James Webb’s Beautiful Images Actually Arrive in Black and White

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New James Webb Space Telescope measurements suggest that problems with Universal expansion rates may be caused by something else entirely.

We May Have “Misunderstood the Universe,” Nobel Prize Winner Says

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have found that "little red dots" in James Webb Space Telescope images are "baby" supermassive black holes.

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Scientists Surprised to Realize Red Dots in James Webb Images Are Black Holes

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted an unusual "extremely red" supermassive black hole billions of light-years away.

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James Webb Spots “Extremely Red” Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Two neutron stars collided millions of years ago and the resulting explosion created a bright flash and, as scientists have found, pure gold.

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James Webb Spots Cosmic Foundry Generating Pure Gold

By Noor Al-Sibai

With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have figured out a supernova mystery that's been decades in the making.

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James Webb Spots Something Lurking in Wreckage of Supernova

By Noor Al-Sibai

Formed just 800 million years after the Big Bang, the galaxy defies our understanding of dark matter's role in the early years of the cosmos.

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Scientists Befuddled by Impossible Galaxy Seen by James Webb

By Frank Landymore

James Webb Spots Two Planets Solemnly Orbiting Dead Stars

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James Webb Spots Two Planets Solemnly Orbiting Dead Stars

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing "super-Earth" that's orbiting its red dwarf star inside the habitable zone.

Astronomers Discover Potentially Habitable Planet

By Victor Tangermann

There are a bunch of dancing objects hanging out in space with no stars — and two of them seem to be giving off some weird radio waves.

Scientists Puzzled by Planet-Sized Objects Emitting Strange Radio Signal

By Noor Al-Sibai

The black hole formed just 400 million years after the Big Bang, but is so massive that it should've taken far longer to reach its size.

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James Webb Finds Most Ancient Black Hole Ever Discovered

By Frank Landymore

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has gotten an unprecedented, close-up look at the many rings of Uranus and its moons.

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The Mighty James Webb Peers Directly Into Uranus

By Victor Tangermann

James Webb Snaps Epic Shot of Exploded Star

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James Webb Snaps Epic Shot of Exploded Star

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has come across a mysteriously familiar "ghostly" object that never showed up in Hubble observations.

James Webb Spots Strange “Ghostly” Object Reappearing

By Victor Tangermann

It appears that until recently, Fox News host Laura Ingraham did not know that the James Webb Space Telescope existed.

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Fox News Host Tries to Mock Biden By Claiming Webb Telescope Isn’t Real

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted hundreds of lonely "planets" that are floating through space without parent stars.

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James Webb Spots Numerous Pairs of Planets, Hanging Out With No Stars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted tantalizing evidence that an exoplanet some 120 light years away could be hosting life.

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James Webb Spots Possible Signs of Life on Distant Planet

By Victor Tangermann

What if the James Webb Space Telescope was pointed at an exoplanet exactly like the Earth? Would it recognize a civilization like ours?

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If the James Webb Spotted a Planet Exactly Like Earth, Would Scientists Notice Our Civilization?

By Victor Tangermann

The James Webb Space Telescope has once again captured imagery of the furthest star ever detected — and revealed that it may not be alone.

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Webb Telescope Makes Surprising Finding About the Most Distant Star Ever Seen

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted a small celestial object shaped almost perfectly like a question mark.

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James Webb Telescope Spots Giant Question Mark in Space

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers believe they've spotted three objects known as dark stars originating just hundreds of years after the Big Bang.

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James Webb Appears to Have Spotted Weird Stars Powered by Dark Matter

By Frank Landymore

Astronomer Rajendra Gupta has devised a new theory about the expansion of the universe, concluding that it's 26.7 billion years old.

Scientist Claims Universe Is Twice as Old as We Thought

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have created a breathtaking, three-dimensional visualization of a recent James Webb Space Telescope survey of ancient galaxies.

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Amazing Video Soars Through James Webb’s Dazzling 3D View of Universe

By Victor Tangermann

The James Webb Space Telescope just got a close look at TRAPPIST-1 c, a rocky exoplanet located roughly 40 lightyears away.

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The Webb Space Telescope Just Zoomed in Super Close on an Alien Planet

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After spending a year and a half one million miles away from Earth, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is finally getting some company.

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NASA Sending Adorable Little Buddy to Hang Out Next to the James Webb

By Victor Tangermann

One of Saturn's weirdest moons has been captured by the James Webb Space Telescope spewing a gigantic plume of water vapor.

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James Webb Catches Saturn’s Moon Squirting

By Noor Al-Sibai

The James Webb Space Telescope's latest discovery is a doozy, and it seems like it's raising more questions than it's answering.

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James Webb Telescope Detects Mysterious Water Vapor Around Alien Planet

By Noor Al-Sibai

JWST Looks Back In Time And Discovers Oldest Known Black Hole in the Universe

JWST Looks Back In Time And Discovers Oldest Known Black Hole in the Universe

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new James Webb Space Telescope survey of the universe has already surpassed Hubble's most comprehensive one to date, and it's only in its first stage.

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James Webb Demolishes Hubble’s Record of Fitting the Most Galaxies in a Single Image

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have now pinpointed the location of an "engine" overpowering a galactic merger with infrared light.

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James Webb Reveals Mysteriously Powerful “Engine” of Two Merging Galaxies

By Frank Landymore

There might be an upside to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope being pelted by showers of micrometeorites once to twice a month.

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Scientists Say There’s an Upside to Those Rocks That Keep Bludgeoning the James Webb

By Victor Tangermann

The James Webb was able to spot the coldest ice on record that may hold clues to the formation of organic molecules across the universe.

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James Webb Discovers Coldest Ice in Known Universe, Harboring Molecules Essential For Life

By Frank Landymore

One of the instruments attached to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has encountered a glitch, making it "currently unavailable for science observations."

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NASA Says Another James Webb Instrument Has Suffered a Glitch

By Victor Tangermann

A new occupational hazard for astronomers just dropped — and it's all because the James Webb Space Telescope is, perhaps, a little too good at its job.

Astronomers Complain That the JWST Is Producing Too Much Data, Too Fast

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has announced details about the multi-billion successor to its groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope called the Habitable Worlds Observatory.

NASA Unveils Plan for Giant Telescope to Spot Life on Alien Planets

By Victor Tangermann

Titan is Saturn's largest and most mysterious moon, and new observations from the James Webb may help understand how it formed its unique atmosphere.

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James Webb Captures Its First Look At Saturn’s Most Mysterious Moon

By Frank Landymore

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is adjusting its orbit to make sure it won't get pelted with even more micrometeorites.

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NASA Adjusting James Webb Orbit to Get Damaged by Micrometeoroids Less

By Victor Tangermann

A group of astronomers has clapped back at a NASA report claiming that it had found no evidence that the original James Webb was homophobic.

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Experts Excoriate NASA Report Claiming James Webb Wasn’t Homophobic

By Noor Al-Sibai

One of the James Webb Space Telescope's most important instruments had been offline for months — but it's now been brought back to full functionality.

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NASA Fixes Months-Long Issue With James Webb Telescope

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA’s New James Webb Shot Is Much Better When You Put Googly Eyes on It

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NASA’s New James Webb Shot Is Much Better When You Put Googly Eyes on It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The iconic Pillars of Creation, considered by many the quintessential image of space, has been re-imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope.

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A New James Webb Shot of the Pillars of Creation Is Dazzling our Tiny Brains

By Frank Landymore

The James Webb Space Telescope has been so impressive that it’s making even astronomers a bit too eager about its incredible findings.

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Scientists May Have Really Screwed Up on Early James Webb Findings

By Frank Landymore

The Hubble and James Webb space telescopes have teamed up, for the first time, to capture outstanding views of NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission.

Webb and Hubble Release Amazing Views of NASA’s Asteroid Collision

By Noor Al-Sibai

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just captured Neptunes's rings in all of their splendor, and they're absolutely beautiful.

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Usually You Can’t See Rings on Neptune. With the James Webb, Though… Wow

By Maggie Harrison Dupré