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![Saturn is pitch black, with only its glowing rings visible, in this raw James Webb telescope image](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/TgSNC5u4sBqZGq9mNCk8cE-320-80.jpg)
See Saturn disappear in eerie, unfinished James Webb telescope images
By Joanna Thompson published
The James Webb Space Telescope's new images of Saturn aren't finished, but they're still mind-blowingly cool.
![A beautiful starscape of orange and blue gas filled with twinkling stars](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9YiCyNMUQBDHCdta9JQqPU-320-80.png)
James Webb telescope discovers carbon compounds crucial to life in star system 1,000 light-years from Earth
By Briley Lewis published
An infant star system contains the basic building block for organic chemistry, new James Webb Space Telescope images reveal.
![A blue dot surrounded by an orange rings on a black background. In the left corner, a red dot glows.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hPvq8dZTAHyV9PEgRFooFR-320-80.jpg)
James Webb Space Telescope discovers oldest organic molecules in the known universe, 12 billion light-years from Earth
By Joanna Thompson published
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered evidence of complex organic molecules in a galaxy 12.3 billion light-years away — the furthest and oldest ever detected.
![A telescope image of distant galaxies, showing thousands of bright stars and galaxies on a black background. In a zoomed-in box is the pale, faint galaxy detected in this new study.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/asr7KUGQjMZgSpg4VvE9LM-320-80.png)
James Webb Space Telescope finds the faintest galaxy ever detected at the dawn of the universe
By Ben Turner published
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the faintest galaxy ever seen, burning away the pitch-black gloom of the early universe 13 billion years ago.
![An illustration of NASA's Cassini orbiter soaring through a giant vapor jet over the moon Enceladus](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/utseB6t3YKvcANaNntNGW3-320-80.jpg)
James Webb telescope discovers gargantuan geyser on Saturn's moon, blasting water hundreds of miles into space
By Isobel Whitcomb published
The James Webb Space Telescope caught Saturn's icy moon Enceladus spraying a 'huge plume' of watery vapor far into space — and that plume may contain chemical ingredients for life.
![An artist's impression of the mini-Neptune planet, colored peach and cloaked in a hazy atmosphere against the dark background of space.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/sti5fRjWvjtcArcQKF54q8-320-80.jpg)
James Webb telescope discovers ancient 'water world' in nearby star system
By Briley Lewis published
The James Webb Space Telescope took its first close look at a "mini-Neptune" — the most common type of planet beyond our solar system — and found signs of water.
![A wall of green gas blooms at the center of a colorful supernova remnant](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ERjo2iy2gUJkp3jfYhm7aX-320-80.jpg)
'Green Monster' supernova is the youngest in the Milky Way, James Webb telescope reveals
By Stephanie Pappas published
New James Webb Space Telescope images reveal the grisly past of Cassiopeia A, the youngest known supernova remnant in the Milky Way.
![Uranus, the 7th planet from the sun, appears as a shiny blue ball surrounded by white rings in this James Webb Space Telescope image](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/BzVwYeP7DQDWvVtJtkndN3-320-80.png)
'Hidden' rings of Uranus revealed in dazzling new James Webb telescope images
By Brandon Specktor published
Astronomers zoomed in on the dusty rings around Uranus in a new series of stunning James Webb Space Telescope images.
![A sampling of thousands of galaxies of varying ages observed by the James Webb Space Telescope](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ynDG7UZbEpppZ2ZoZyCS4T-320-80.jpg)
James Webb telescope discovers the 4 oldest galaxies in the universe, born just 300 million years after the Big Bang
By Briley Lewis published
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected the four oldest galaxies in the known universe, which are forming stars much faster than thought possible.
![An artist's illustration of a black hole.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/FBpQkzaGDiXLUHfXyrqoqB-320-80.jpg)
James Webb Space Telescope discovers oldest black hole in the universe — a cosmic monster 10 million times heavier than the sun
By Ben Turner published
The James Webb Space Telescope detected what may be the oldest known black hole in the universe by deconstructing faint glimmers of light from close to the dawn of time.
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