The James Webb Space Telescope captured amazing imagery of merging galaxies II ZW 96. The merger is located 500 million light ...

Take a tour of the amazing Ring Nebula image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/Institute for ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the very beginning of planet formation around a star beyond our Solar System. Using the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA, researchers detected hot ...

A nebula where young stars sculpt dragon-like forms has been imaged in colorful detail by the Dark Energy Camera in Chile.

In a cosmic breakthrough, scientists using the James Webb and ALMA telescopes have caught a rare glimpse of a planetary ...

For millennia, astronomers thought Uranus was no more than a distant star. It wasn’t until the late 18th century that Uranus was universally accepted as a planet. To this day, the ringed, blue world ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered dormant galaxies with a wide range of masses in ...

An incredible object form by two colliding galaxies may be the site of a recently formed supermassive black hole.

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere and look up during July evenings, you’ll see the brilliant star Vega shining overhead.

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

“For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our Sun,” says Melissa McClure, a professor at Leiden University in the ...