"We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don't see, look like this on the inside — we just ...

How do images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear so colorful, and where do the colors come from?

The shells of carbon-rich dust are expanding outward into space at the breakneck velocity of 1,600 miles per second.

The James Webb Space Telescope captured photos of one of the earliest supernovas ever seen using infrared technology, and ...

The initial findings offer novel perspectives on the relationship between star formation and the evolution of galaxies.

NASA's exoplanet mission, Pandora, is closer to launch after completing its spacecraft bus. This mission aims to study the ...

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now a research team has studied hundreds ...

Learn about the thermal light echo, observed by NASA, that causes intricate layers of interstellar gas and dust to emit an ...

Soon after it came online in 2022, Webb observations revealed a population of tiny red objects dubbed little red dots (LRDs).

One of the most distant and, thus, earliest star-killing supernovas ever seen has been discovered by astronomers with the ...

NASA's upcoming Pandora mission, poised for launch later this year, promises to revolutionize our understanding of exoplanet ...

An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new observations with the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, have let astronomers read the entrails, astronomers report ...