The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...

A new 527-megapixel image captures two open star clusters, NGC 456 and NGC 460, orbiting our Milky Way galaxy. The image uses ...

The hunt for potentially habitable rocky planets in our galaxy has been the holy grail of exoplanet studies for decades.

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the astronomers said. A gaseous disk surrounding the young star is the first stages of ...

When looking up at the sky, you might think galaxies have always looked the way they do today. But a new study from Princeton ...

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process began billions of years ago, revealing a common path in galactic evolution.

Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the ...

Hidden in the ‘Infinity Galaxy,’ a black hole floats in space where none should exist, upending old ideas about black hole birth.

The telescope has the world's largest digital camera, which is the size of a small car, weighs 2,800 kg, and boasts a ...

Brown dwarfs are too small to sustain the nuclear fusion that powers most stars, so they cool and fade over time. But if they ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed thick, dusty layers of the Cat's Claw Nebula, a region of star formation about 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius, the agency has ...