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

The antennas on Earth and James Webb Telescope in space looked at a seemingly empty space in the sky for several hours to ...

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two ...

Like the Sun shining through the clouds in the early morning, a bright star within the star-forming nebula N79 appears to ...

In the years following the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

"We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don't see, look like this on the inside — we just ...

In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal, a team of researchers led by Kristen McQuinn, a scientist at the Space ...

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

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...

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

One of the most distant and, thus, earliest star-killing supernovas ever seen has been discovered by astronomers with the ...

Yale researchers among those who discovered three “ultra-massive” galaxies, which were formed shortly after the Big Bang and ...