The exoplanet K2-18b is generating headlines because researchers announced what could be evidence of life on the planet. The ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared camera (NIRCam) captured stunning imagery of Neptune. It is the "clearest view ...

Scientists observed and captured the first clear evidence of auroras on Neptune using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), ...

"Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it came to detecting auroras on the giant planets," said the European Space Agency.

Even at Neptune's incredible distance from the sun, astronomers have long suspected it has auroras, though they had never seen them until now. The James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of ...

Astronomers, using the James Webb Space Telescope, captured the first direct images of Neptune's auroras, revealing light shows previously believed to exist but unseen. These auroras appear at ...

Capturing images of Neptune's auroras had remained out of reach until the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) turned its powerful eye towards the icy planet. "Turns out, actually imaging the ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

But auroras around our sun’s most distant planet, Neptune, have long eluded astronomers. That has changed with the powerful infrared instruments aboard the James Webb Space Telescope.

Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the sun. For the first time, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured ...

The photo at left is an enhanced-color image of Neptune from the Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined ...