That could soon change, thanks to a new NASA flagship telescope being designed to seek out strange new worlds that could ...

The shells of carbon-rich dust are expanding outward into space at the breakneck velocity of 1,600 miles per second.

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

When Pagan and DePasquale first receive the images, they appear in black and white. The colors are added to the image later, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar ...

Ashley Zelinskie's VR artwork Twin Quasar was inspired by the iconic deep-space image from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Though space is chock-full of interstellar medium, it tends to be invisible unless lit up by a celestial spotlight. Sometimes ...

The heavy-lift New Glenn rocket soared to success, reaching orbit on its highly anticipated inaugural flight but failing to ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant ...

Two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 collide, forming carbon-rich dust. Webb captured 17 expanding dust shells, revealing ...

An international team of scientists has produced the clearest three-dimensional view yet of the Ring Nebula—one of the night ...