The observations offer a rare glimpse into our solar system's early history.

A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to discover a former star that ...

To capture higher-definition and sharper images of cosmological objects, astronomers sometimes combine the data collected by ...

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Travel to James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam and MIRI instrument views of protostar L1527. The protostar is about 100,000 ...

Astronomers have dived into the turbulent and chaotic heart of the Milky Way, discovering hidden chemistry around our galaxy's supermassive black hole.

Astronomy does not belong off Earth. It belongs wherever the universe can be observed — and that necessarily includes the surface of the planet humans live on. Kelsey Johnson: Past President of the ...

New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first vertical view of Uranus's upper atmosphere, delivering an unprecedented look at the planet's ionosphere and auroral structures. The new ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) captured imagery of a pair of stars called Wolf-Rayet 140.

The draft environmental assessment argues that Haleakala may be the only site where the new telescopes could be built and ...

Space rarely gives up its secrets easily. For instance, what looks like a single ...