Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.

Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot.

Let's start with the human eye. The human eye has an angular resolution of about 1 arcminute. That's pretty impressive. Take a circle surrounding you on the horizon, divide it into 360 little bits, ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

The University of Arizona has utilized state-of-the-art Magellan Adaptive Optics Xtreme technology to observe the PDS 70 ...

Ever wondered why stars twinkle but planets don’t? Discover the simple science behind this sky mystery and how scientists ...

Slushy hailstones of ammonia and water were part of a bizarre theory to explain the planet's poorly mixed atmosphere. These mushballs seem to be real, say UC Berkeley scientists.

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope finds molecules that could only be produced by life in the atmosphere of an alien ...

The fast-moving gas cloud could help explain the so-called missing satellite problem, if the object is what scientists think ...

A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...

In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding?