NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has observed the well-known Ring Nebula in unprecedented detail. The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation, from the massive, young stars shaping the ...

With its gas shining brighter than its stars, a strange galaxy found one billion years after the Big Bang may represent a ...

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy IC 1954, located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Horologium. It sports a glowing bar in its core, ...

Three active galactic nuclei from the early universe were found in just a small patch of sky. How many more could there have ...

The newly-discovered GS-NDG-9422 galaxy appears as a faint blur in this James Webb Space Telescope NIRCam (Near-Infrared ...

Astronomers have constructed telescopes of every kind - massive observatories designed to pick up faint traces of light ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a rare galaxy at the dawn of time that may be a "missing link" ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the galaxy named GS-NDG-9422 — a realm that existed about one billion years after ...

Zoom into an amazing James Webb Space Telescope view of galaxy NGC 3256. It is " the wreckage of a head-on collision between ...

A "totally new phenomenon" has been discovered by astronomers in a strange galaxy from the dawn of time. This galaxy, named ...

Despite its similarity with our solar system's biggest planet, WASP-107b has only 10% of Jupiter's mass, leading astronomers ...

The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way ever made has been published after observations by the VISTA telescope over ...