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Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS ...
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has been exploring the cosmos for 3 years. See some of the amazing highlights.
Webb telescope captures a young giant star firing off an 8-light-year gas jet, and revealing how massive stars form.
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 ...
"It's an elegant answer, really, because we thought it was a tiny galaxy full of many separate cold stars, but it's actually, ...
Finding another Earth is the holy grail of modern astronomy. NASA’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured infant stars carving peaks of dust and gas in the Pismis 24 star cluster.
When LIGO detected gravitational waves unleashed from two colliding black holes for the first time in science history, it set off a whole new era in astronomy.
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, ...
Tiny, glowing red dots seen by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could be one of the biggest surprises in modern ...
Astronomers have captured a cosmic butterfly. New images from the James Webb Space Telescope show a jaw-dropping view of a ...