The most powerful telescope ever launched into space uncovered a cluster of forming stars within the "toe beans" of the Cat's ...

The James Webb Space Telescope peered through dust and gas to reveal star formation in a rare wheel-shaped galaxy that formed in a long-ago galactic crash.

A gorgeous new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a bustling region of star formation at the distant edge of the Milky Way. Called, dramatically enough, the Extreme Outer Galaxy, this ...

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...

Astronomers have a long tradition of finding holiday cheer in outer space. This image of the Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster was made with data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has recorded spectacular images of star formation in the extreme outer reaches of the Milky Way. Here's a look.

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers say.

Scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine select star-forming areas in the Extreme Outer Galaxy in near- and mid-infrared light. Within this star-forming region, known as ...

The stars are roughly the same age, but they vary in many other ways, allowing scientists to compare them. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero galaxy with its MIRI.

The Milky Way’s outer halo is expected to span out some 1 million light-years from the core of our galaxy. And a few newfound stars are living right at the theoretical outskirts of this outer halo.

The most distant of these stars is more than a million light years from Earth, almost half the distance to our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda, which is about 2.5 million light years away.

A gorgeous new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a bustling region of star formation at the distant edge of the Milky Way. Called, dramatically enough, the Extreme Outer Galaxy, this ...