The James Webb Space Telescope had to perform outside of its design limits to observe the collision of NASA's DART probe with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in September last year, NASA has revealed.

The James Webb Space Telescope observed its smallest cosmic object to date while trying to look at another asteroid.

However, NASA says recent “lucky” observations by James Webb have revealed that the spectacular rings surrounding this asteroid are home to water ice, marking an exceptional discovery for ...

While the James Webb Space Telescope has been ... made of four different pictures taken by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. An asteroid streaks through the image in the upper left side ...

The Hubble and Webb Space Telescopes join forces to give us this dazzling and colorful view of spiral galaxy NGC 1566: a swirling scaffolding of dense dusty filaments, shining star clusters ...

Scientists using NASA's new James Webb Space Telescope say they've been able to get a closer look at an asteroid that also hosts just the fifth ring system to be discovered in our solar system ...

James Webb has hit a software glitch. The newly minted telescope has only been in service for a little over six months, but it has run into yet another problem that will delay scientific ...

It was also the first time the public understood how much more powerful Webb is than its predecessor, the Hubble Telescope, which only sees visible light, ultraviolet radiation and near-infrared ...

In October 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) watched as Chariklo, a tiny ringed asteroid, eclipsed a star. This event, called an occultation, marked a first for Webb. At the month's ...

Webb’s primary mirror is the largest ever launched into space and has 6.25 times more collecting area than Hubble’s mirror ... the very faint photons that hit that mirror could be converted ...

James Webb Space Telescope is the successor to Hubble Space Telescope. (Image by NASA – depicts full scale model of the Webb telescope) NASA’s James Webb Telescope: US space agency National ...