Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so far in the early universe, one of the strangest are objects that astronomers now call "little red dots." Like the ...

How do images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear so colorful, and where do the colors come from?

A deep field image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI | mash mix: Space.com Music: Tranquil Dawn by Amber Glow / courtesy of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

This supernova, detected as part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES ... Current estimates suggest Roman's wide field of view will locate thousands of early supernovas for ...

One of the most distant and, thus, earliest star-killing supernovas ever seen has been discovered by astronomers with the help of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). After the Big Bang, around ...

For instance, the most distant objects in JWST's first deep-field view — which appear red because light traveling such a distance had been stretched out — presented targets for research on the ...

This Collection highlights the results from the Early Science Release programme of the JWST telescope focused on transiting hot giant exoplanets. With its extended wavelength range and its ...

Artist Ashley Zelinskie's new VR work is called "Twin Quasar." Two roads diverge between a pair of quasars, and I'm sorry I can't travel both — actually, wait, I can travel both.

This colorful view of N79 centers on a star-forming molecular cloud complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud.