The image reveals an outflow of hot gas from a newborn star — known as a Herbig-Haro object — situated about 625 light-years ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope unveiled a stunning new image from the farthest reaches of space. This groundbreaking image ...

Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we ...

Frothy and resembling an ice cream sundae — that’s how NASA described a newly-released, stunning image of a cosmic tornado ...

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

Before Webb, other telescopes like the Hubble Space Telescope and computer simulations suggested oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen didn't come about for perhaps another 200 to 400 million years.

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects. A surprising chemical difference between Pluto and Sedna, another dwarf ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. This planet, five times larger than Earth, has extreme temperatures reaching 2,400°C and ...

Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct images of four planets in a star system 130 light years from Earth — an astonishingly eagle-eyed feat of cosmic ...

Named JADES-GS-z14-0, the galaxy where the record-breaking detection was made formed at least 290 million years after the Big Bang and was first spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope in 2024.