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 creating a time lapse of the phenomena.
A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now a research team has studied hundreds ...
The initial findings offer novel perspectives on the relationship between star formation and the evolution of galaxies.
Rare blue lurker star found in the M67 open star cluster Unusual rotation speed linked to stellar mergers in a triple system ...
Pandora, NASA's newest exoplanet mission, is one step closer to launch with the completion of the spacecraft bus, which ...
NASA's upcoming Pandora mission, poised for launch later this year, promises to revolutionize our understanding of exoplanet ...
Soon after it came online in 2022, Webb observations revealed a population of tiny red objects dubbed little red dots (LRDs).
An international team led by astronomers at Leiden University has shown in laboratory experiments that sulfur can bind with ...
Recent discoveries by the James Webb Space Telescope reveal that supermassive black holes were present much earlier than ...
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 ...