A distant galaxy 12 billion light-years away shows signs of being a jellyfish galaxy, with trailing streams of gas caused by ...

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

Webb’s new images of the Bullet Cluster reveal the most detailed dark matter map yet, shedding light on cosmic collisions and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

The first images from the telescope were released earlier this week, and it uses a 3,200-megapixel camera the size of a car.

A surprising new look at the Milky Way has scientists rethinking everything we thought we knew about our home galaxy. Thanks ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is poised to discover billions of new astronomical objects, revolutionizing understanding of ...

As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark ...

Step outside on a clear night, trace the hazy stripe of the Milky Way and enjoy the comfortable illusion that you more or less grasp our place in the ...

The image comes from Webb’s NIRCam instrument and follows mid-infrared observations taken late in 2024. Together with visible-light data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the new frame lets researchers ...

If water can exist out there in structured, planet-building regions of the galaxy, then life might just be another natural outcome of cosmic chemistry. And thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, we ...