Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently spotted a rare cosmic phenomenon known as the "Cosmic Owl". This structure is ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...

What happens when two rare ring galaxies collide? They form an infinity symbol—or the face of a cosmic owl, depending on how ...

The James Webb Telescope has photographed what appears to be an undiscovered planet, previously obscured by dust and ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

Last week the James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of what they believe to be a previously unknown exoplanet ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a rare 'Cosmic Owl' structure, formed by two colliding ring galaxies, approximately 11 billion light-years away.

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...