Machine learning and advanced optics helped scientists correct distortions in Webb’s images, unlocking new potential to ...

Astronomers have yet to find irrefutable proof for any natural satellites of exoplanets—so-called exomoons—but as ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories suggests a supervolcanic exomoon may lurk around the giant ...

Look for the three stars that make up the distinctive formation of Orion's Belt — Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka — shining ...

It was put on Webb to diagnose and measure any blur in its images. Even nanometres of distortion in Webb’s 18 hexagonal ...

Betelgeuse, the brilliant red star marking Orion's shoulder, has long been suspected of harboring a secret. I have to confess ...

An interstellar visitor is zipping through the Milky Way, and a team of Michigan State University researchers is keeping ...

Researchers have identified a massive red supergiant on the brink of supernova in images from the James Webb Space Telescope, ...

Texas lawmakers want to move the Smithsonian’s retired space shuttle to Houston. It’s “a vanity project that is apt to ...

For decades, scientists have suspected that Betelgeuse—the giant red star that forms Orion’s shoulder—wasn’t alone. Now, a ...

How old are the stars? Even with the most accurate tools currently available for modeling stellar evolution, the answer ...

Over the course of human history, perhaps no single object in the night sky has drawn more attention than the Andromeda ...