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

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

In the vast expanse of the cosmos, where stars forge elements and planets cradle potential life, the arrival of an ...

A nested series of dusty spirals is captured swirling around a mighty triple star system containing two of the rarest stars ...

Watch how JW Telescope detects temperature on Trappist 1 b. Credit: Space.com | animation courtesy: ESO/L. Calçada / Space ...

An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...

Perhaps an odd question, but what exactly is the volume of space that makes up various "L" points? Obviously it isn't a precise place in space where only one orbital object sits as if on a gravity ...

Apep was first spotted in optical light in 2018. Only the innermost spiral was visible through early images. JWST’s MIRI ...

A new study of the red dwarf system TOI-3884 has uncovered rare, persistent spot-crossing signals that reveal unusually detailed information about the star’s magnetic activity and the planet’s orbital ...

F rom the very first images, JWST showed that it was going to be a revolutionary instrument, and yet it continues to surprise ...

Webb's mid-infrared image shows four coiled shells of dust around a pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep for the first time ...