Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, ...

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb ...

Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

Credit: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration Scientists at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, which runs Webb and the Hubble Space Telescope, are calling this the longest ...

Less than four years after its showstopping launch, the James Webb Space Telescope is facing massive budget slashes that will ...

Astronomers warn that proposed changes to the space observatory's operational budget could decrease the amount of groundbreaking data gathered by the mission.

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

The director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which runs the James Webb Space Telescope, has afforded planetary defense scientists a special, unplanned use of the space observatory ...

dos Santos, an assistant astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, United States. The team tracked the movements of iron, sodium and hydrogen, which allowed them to trace ...

A team of researchers at the Space Telescope Science Institute recently found that Leo P formed stars early on but then stopped making them shortly after a period known as the Epoch of ...