The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, astronomers said Wednesday, capturing rare direct images of the relatively small world in Earth's galactic backyard.

The space-based observatory has revolutionized the way we see space, and it can now add another remarkable accomplishment to ...

Finding a Saturn-sized world around the young star TWA 7 could pave the way for the Webb space telescope’s direct observation of other exoplanets.

This discovery is out of this world. For the first time since its operations began in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has snapped its first images of web-like "boxwork" features on the surface of Mars. The zig-zagging rocks could provide clues about the Red Planet's watery past and whether it ...

A study by WEHI scientists has shed new light on one of the most fundamental mysteries of biology: how cells divide and grow ...

See the iconic Pillars of Creation in this 3D visualization created from James Webb and Hubble Space Telescope data. Credits ...

Images generated by artificial intelligence (AI) are often almost indistinguishable from real images to the human eye.

In the chapters that follow we treat the Science of Culture in its several aspects: the origin and nature of culture, the emergence of the scientific interpretation of culture and an historical sketch ...

Scientists turned out at rallies from coast to coast and in Europe to “Stand Up for Science,” revitalizing a movement to defend scientific integrity that started during Trump’s first term.

Photograph by Zephyr/Science Photo Library. By Helen Bradshaw. May 13, 2025. In 2024, the Oxford University Press declared “brain rot” the word of the year.

In this issue, “Best of the Web” presents the modified National Institute of Standards and Technology (MNIST) resources, consisting of a collection of handwritten digit images used extensively in ...