HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...

The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier ...

Astronomers using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to survey distant galaxies spotted an unusual, chance phenomenon ...

A dazzling galaxy discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is forcing cosmologists to reexamine key assumptions ...

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making ...

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on ...

The image of the amazing light show, that looks like a tornado in the stars, combines observations from two different cameras ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

The European Space Agency’s “dark universe detective” discovered millions of new galaxies and offers potential clues about ...

NAS's James Webb Space Telescope has captured Neptune’s glowing auroras in the best detail yet. Hints of auroras were first ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...