Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of researchers has discovered chemical fingerprints from enormous ...

The world's first commercial space telescope has released its first image as it begins its journey to help track nearby stars ...

A new study suggests that "little red dots" spied by the James Webb telescope could be the universe's short-lived first ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals new infrared images of the brain-shaped PMR 1 "Exposed Cranium" nebula, the final ...

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...

The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments. If some of them are about 13.

Webb captured the object in infrared — light wavelengths that are invisible to human eyes but can pierce through thick dust.

A dying star molting its final layers in space seems to be in the midst of a sad, solitary experience — at least from a storytelling perspective. But a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope, a ...

A telescope in Chile has revealed the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope zoomed in on extremely faint objects, called brown dwarfs, in the Flame Nebula. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / M. Meyer (University of Michigan) There's a class of ...