The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

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

The primary mirror array will be 128 feet (39 meters) across, allowing it to gather more light and greater detail than any ...

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

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we ...

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

Scientists using two enormous telescopes — one on Earth and the other in space — have detected oxygen in the most ancient ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged four planets orbiting the host star HR 8799 about 130 light-years ...