It was put on Webb to diagnose and measure any blur in its images. Even nanometres of distortion in Webb’s 18 hexagonal ...

Betelgeuse, the brilliant red star marking Orion's shoulder, has long been suspected of harboring a secret. I have to confess ...

Researchers have identified a massive red supergiant on the brink of supernova in images from the James Webb Space Telescope, ...

For decades, scientists have suspected that Betelgeuse—the giant red star that forms Orion’s shoulder—wasn’t alone. Now, a ...

Elliptical galaxies instead tend to be older, more massive, and with stars distributed not in a nice little disk, but in a spherical distribution. Elliptical galaxies, being the product of galactic ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of the most distant single star found yet. It took the light from the star 12 ...

For the first time, astronomers have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to get a clear look at a giant star right ...

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a massive red supergiant star just before it exploded, finally solving a cosmic ...

According to theory, massive red supergiant stars should cause most supernovae, yet they are rarely observed. New James Webb ...