The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...

The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

A chemical detected on a planet 124 light-years from Earth is produced by decaying phytoplankton and other microbes. There is no other known source.

While the Webb Telescope watched exoplanet K2‑18b glide across its parent star, sulfur‑bearing gases appeared in the planet’s ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...

Observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have provided a surprising twist in the narrative surrounding what is ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows thousands of glittering galaxies that it spied by peering through ...

NASA released stunning images of the NGC 1514 nebula, showcasing the most vivid depiction of its dual rings ever captured.

It was once thought that when an aging star engulfed a planet it would be a dramatic event. Now, the Webb telescope has ...

The planet "splashed down" into the star, sending a giant plume of gas into space that gave the star a ring. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic ...

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mission to make infrared observations. This was the ...