Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a ...

For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope (JSWT) has revealed bright auroral activity on the planet Neptune.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled an awe-inspiring celestial spectacle of a spiral galaxy interacting with a ...

Herbig-Haro 49/50, aka the 'Cosmic Tornado', as seen by Spitzer in January 2006. The source of the 'tornado', a Class 1 ...

Hubble images of this photogenic nebula were first ... it would be as wide as six full moons placed side-by-side. Although this image captures the Veil Nebula at a single point in time, it helps ...

ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sankrit “This view combines images taken in three different ... it would be as wide as six full Moons placed side-by-side,” Hubble scientists explain.

which is roughly as wide as six of Earth’s moons placed side by side. Hubble has previously snapped images of this nebula in 1994, 1997, and 2015. This new image was taken at a single point in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...

For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.

Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, or ACT, collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe’s infancy – the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans. Measuring light ...