Device "seeks to identify planets beyond the solar system and other objects in space that would otherwise go unnoticed." ...

Scientists can look ... stars reach. Astronomers already had a good idea of what these nurseries looked like while peering at them from Earth, but how they looked from other directions was a blindspot ...

According to theory, massive red supergiant stars should cause most supernovae, yet they are rarely observed. New James Webb ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. The Andromeda galaxy is the galaxy next door, a very faint, fuzzy thing ...

NASA's powerful James Webb Space telescope has revealed a colorful spread of stars and cosmic dust in the Milky Way's most active star-forming region. The telescope was studying Sagittarius B2, a ...

New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula. The Cat's Paw Nebula is named after its resemblance to a feline footprint: ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has, for the first time, measured the carbon-rich concoction that forms a moon-forming disk of ...

Scientists did not find a robust atmosphere around TRAPPIST-1d, an Earth-size exoplanet many hoped would show signs of having air. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / J. Olmsted illustration As scientists ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Telescope observations reveal a growing tail on the comet that’s visiting from another star. Released Thursday, the pictures taken by the Gemini South telescope in Chile ...