Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made an unprecedented discovery that promises to reshape our ...

There’s a new class of cosmic object in town. And it might just overturn our understanding of black holes and galaxy ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts, a team of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have captured amazing views of spiral galaxy NGC 2566. Credit: ...

By comparing those fingerprints to 20 different molecules that they would potentially expect to observe in the atmosphere, ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope for the largest and deepest sample of galaxy groups, some of which were up to ...

The signal from the planet’s atmosphere has reached what scientists call “three-sigma” certainty, meaning there’s about a 0.3% chance the detection happened by accident. For scientists to confidently ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered Zhúlóng, the most distant known spiral galaxy, existing just ...

At a frigid -125 degrees Fahrenheit (-87 degrees Celsius), WD 1856+534 b is the coldest planet ever directly observed, ...

Thanks to JWST, we've learned key details about methanol — a key building block for organic compounds necessary for life — on ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...