Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have investigated a "failed star," or brown dwarf, nicknamed "The Accident." Their results may help solve a long-standing mystery surrounding ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

Hopkins applied mathematicians, astronomers develop method to render images from ground-based telescopes as clear as those ...

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 ...

Webb’s infrared vision reveals M87’s faint counter-jet, reshaping our understanding of how black holes power and regulate ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a giant protostar blasting jets, seen diagonally here, on the edge of the Milky Way. - NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Yu Cheng / Joseph DePasquale In a remote ...

The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable planets. Future observatories will use the data to narrow down the list for ...

The Moon will align with the Seven Sisters star cluster in the night sky this week, offering stargazers a rare and beautiful celestial view.

A study of Saturn's atmospheric structure using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed complex and mysterious features unseen before on any planet in our Solar System. A study of ...

The universe doesn’t revolve around Kitt Peak, but the observatory southwest of Tucson is at the center of what could be the biggest breakthrough in the study of the cosmos in decades. Using an ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope now think the "little red dots" spotted in the early universe could be a new kind of space object. They call it a "black hole star." Credit: T.