A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

Grant and Cugno used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to pick out the infrared glow from the disk of gas and dust ...

Coiled and snakelike, a set of four identical shells surrounds a violent stellar dance 8,000 light-years from Earth.

Searching for exomoons—moons that orbit around another planet—was one of the most exciting capabilities expected of the James ...

The galaxy, seen when the universe was 1.5 billion years old, has a Milky Way-like structure that defies standard models of ...

Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the ...

The JWST has spotted Alaknanda, a massive, well-formed grand-design spiral galaxy that existed just 1.5 billion years after ...

Observations of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, collected by the James Webb Space ...

The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered puzzling ultraviolet radiation around young stars in a stellar nursery.

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared camera (NIRCam) captured stunning imagery of Neptune. It is the "clearest view ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning view of the Pismis 24 star cluster located in the core of the Lobster Nebula. Travel 5,500 light years to the amazing imagery in ...