Astronomers are pulling back the curtain on two of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how planets are born and how invisible ...

NASA released full color James Webb Space Telescope images of the Carina Nebula, exoplanet WASP-96 b, Southern Ring Nebula, ...

Astronomy isn’t just about distant stars; it’s also about the human effort here on Earth that makes it possible to extend our ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has been exploring the cosmos for 3 years. See some of the amazing highlights.

"It's an elegant answer, really, because we thought it was a tiny galaxy full of many separate cold stars, but it's actually, ...

When the "little red dots" were first discovered in 2022, scientists thought the objects might be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way, which is about 13.6 billion years old. That's because galaxies ...

Methane gas may signal an atmosphere or geological activity on a distant dwarf planet located at the outer edge of the Solar System. A research team led by the Southwest Research Institute has ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near captured imagery of Jupiter and its moons Amalthea and Adrastea on July 27, 2022. Also visible in the false color Near Infrared Camara (NIRCam) images are the gas ...

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope may have found a new type of object: cold, glowing black hole stars from the early ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...

Finding another Earth is the holy grail of modern astronomy. NASA’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is ...

Ukrainian defense forces destroyed a giant radio telescope in Crimea, a powerful planetary transmitter once used to support ...