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'Ridiculously smooth': James Webb telescope spies unusual pancake-like disk around nearby star Vega — and scientists can't explain it
By Harry Baker published
The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming that it is not surrounded by any exoplanets, JWST images reveal. And scientists cannot explain its lack of alien worlds.
42 jaw-dropping James Webb Space Telescope images
By Brandon Specktor last updated
From nebulas and black holes to baby star nurseries and ancient collisions, the universe has never looked more beautiful thanks to NASA's $10 billion-telescope.
James Webb Space Telescope sees lonely supermassive black hole-powered quasars in the early universe
By Robert Lea published
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered lonely quasars in the early universe, with "empty larders" that defy theories surrounding their growth to monster sizes.
Are we wrong about the age of the universe? The James Webb telescope is raising big questions.
By Sandro Tacchella published
Some of the earliest galaxies found with JWST are also the brightest. That's a problem for our ideas about the universe.
James Webb Space Telescope deciphers the origins of Pluto's icy moon Charon
By Robert Lea published
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide at the surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially shedding light on its origins.
Space photo of the week: Entangled galaxies form cosmic smiley face in new James Webb telescope image
By Jamie Carter published
A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows Arp 107, home to two merging galaxies, with two bright cores and a "bridge" of dust and gas forming a cosmic smiley face.
The James Webb telescope has brought cosmology to a tipping point. Will it soon reveal new physics?
By Andreea Font published
Right now, it looks like cosmology is at a tipping point. Will the James Webb telescope resolve the issue by revealing new physics?
What??? James Webb telescope finds giant question mark in space
By Brandon Specktor published
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a pair of distant galaxies being twisted into a cosmic question mark thanks to a rare form of gravitational lensing.
Early galaxies weren't mystifyingly massive after all, James Webb Space Telescope finds
By Charles Q. Choi published
'The bottom line is, there is no crisis in terms of the standard model of cosmology.
James Webb telescope spots 6 enormous 'rogue planets' tumbling through space without a star
By Ben Turner published
The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered six "rogue planets" careening through space without a star. The objects are believed to have formed directly from gas collapse, blurring the lines between planets and stars.
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