The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured 19 spiral galaxies "face-on" in near- and mid-infrared. The images "show stars, gas, and dust on the smallest scales ever observed beyond our own galaxy," ...

This phase represents a brief and intense period that only certain massive stars experience shortly before exploding as supernovas.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a powerful tool for exploring space, launched in December 2021. It can see faraway ...

The cutting-edge, $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... of energy from both ends like a cosmic lighthouse. The new images reveal the shockwaves generated by these stellar eruptions ...

James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M.

From its halo-like orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is seeing farther than human eyes ...

At this point, astronomers are used to the James Webb Space Telescope pushing the boundaries of astronomy — so it is little ...

The galaxies, IC 2163 on the left and NGC 2207, are about 114 light-years away from Earth, located in the Eridanus and Canis ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered lonely quasars in the early universe, with "empty larders" that defy theories ...

A traveling exhibit will be on display at the Putnam Museum with a close-up view of the stars. NASA’s Hubble: New Views of ...

This image by the James Webb Space Telescope showcases a spiral galaxy IC 5332 located 29 million light-years from Earth. The ...