James webb space telescope

Webb telescope documents alien planet's death plunge into a star

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals that planets may spiral into their stars, rather than being swallowed by expanding red giants. This changes our understanding of planetary destruction.

 Artist's impression of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
 An image of galaxies from over 13 billion years ago taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera).

Black holes made galaxies in early universe look 'impossibly large' - study

Artwork showing a section of Kuiper Belt, crowded with the icy cores of potential comets.

This liquid is a pivotal element for the boundaries of 'habitable zones'

 The puzzling, fascinating surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa looms large in this newly-reprocessed color view, made from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s.

NASA finds source of life on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa


NASA's Webb telescope finds exoplanet with potential signs of life

Along with methane and carbon dioxide, the James Webb Telescope also discovered a molecule known as dimethyl sulphide (DMS), a substance only produced by living things.

  Exoplanet K2-18b.

Black holes may be causing mature galaxies to stop producing new stars

Scientists have long suggested that the supermassive black holes in these galaxies are interacting with the gas clouds to prev

 This artist's concept shows a supermassive black hole at the center of a remote galaxy digesting the remnants of a star.