Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of ...

To do that, humans have built some of the most spectacular astronomical observatories around the world, capable of peering into the vast void of space and capturing images that astound. The James Webb ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

The infamous 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4, which is large enough to destroy an entire city, still has a 2% chance of ...

After sending chills down their spines with its brief stint as the highest-risk space object ever recorded, a near-Earth ...

Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by ...

The spins of some early galaxies could be a clue that the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that ...

The first galaxies in the Universe were born enshrouded in a “foggy” gas, and could not be seen clearly until they had ...

Don't worry – it's still not a danger to Earth for the time being. When we last checked in, odds of a collision between 2024 ...

A powerful “Cosmic Tornado” has received a high-definition glow-up thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The ...