Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy—the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans—have ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

You don't want to miss it. The Webb telescope image below shows what are likely three brown dwarfs in the Flame Nebula, which teems with hot, young forming stars (protostars). Previously ...

Meyer (University of Michigan), A. Pagan (STScI) The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into the dusty shroud of a young nebula alight with star formation on the hunt for "failed ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured stunning images of the developing star system Lynds 483, revealing intricate gas and dust structures from protostars. These observations offer valuable ...

WASHINGTON >> Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s star – one of our closest stellar neighbors — though they concluded that all of them are too hot ...

One of the Holy Grails in cosmology is a look back at the earliest epochs of cosmic history. Unfortunately, the universe's ...

100 million stars, and 10,000 asteroids. It will answer questions that require a view of the entire sky, which are missed out by the biggest telescopes that chase the highest resolution.

The universe can be a beautiful but violent place. A new image from the Webb space telescope captures an epic battle between two stars as they launch jets of material toward one another ...