quick factsWhat it is: IC 348, a star-forming reflection nebulaWhere it is: 1,000 light-years away in the constellation PerseusWhen it was s...

NASA is moving forward with designing a new space telescope that can see even deeper into the infrared universe than the James Webb Space Te...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured the "Treasure Chest," a cometary globule in the star-forming Carina Nebula, on Aug. 6, 2026 (Imag...

Astronomers have discovered a close pair of actively feeding supermassive black holes, seen when the universe was just 1.3 billion years old...

quick factsWhat it is: Saguaro, a lower-redshift spiral galaxyWhere it is: About 10 billion light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major...

Quick factsWhat it is: The collision-prone galaxy cluster MACS J0553.4-3342Where it is: In the constellation ColumbaWhen it was shared: July...

Quick factsWhat it is: Centaurus A galaxy (NGC 5128)Where it is: 11 million light-years away, in the constellation CentaurusWhen it was shar...

Astronomers have reconstructed the "skeleton" of the cosmos in unprecedented detail, thanks to the largest-ever survey conducted by the Jame...

This week's science news was all about goings on in space, with reports that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) picked up a signal from a...

A new James Webb telescope snap shows off the glowing gas, sculpted jets and newborn stars lurking within the giant cosmic cloud OMC-2, loca...

The James Webb telescope peered into an ancient spot of light, and found it to be the most metal-poor galaxy in the early universe.

Two pairs of 'rogue' Jupiter-size, planet-like objects have been found in a large star-forming region in the Milky Way, a new study claims....

Astronomers weighed a black hole in a "little red dot" discovered by the James Webb telescope. They found it to be so overmassive that it ma...

Neptune has a complicated life story, and its moon Nereid might be the only one left standing from the planet’s multibillion-year history.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have created the most detailed map of the cosmic web ever.