In the years following the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

"We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don't see, look like this on the inside — we just ...

The galaxy, located in the constellation Leo, is about the same size as a star cluster within the Milky Way and is about the same age as the Milky Way. The “P” in Leo P refers to “pristine,” because ...

More than one million images present the cosmos as Nancy Grace Roman Telescope will see it from 2027.

Soon after it came online in 2022, Webb observations revealed a population of tiny red objects dubbed little red dots (LRDs).

How do images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear so colorful, and where do the colors come from?

The shells of carbon-rich dust are expanding outward into space at the breakneck velocity of 1,600 miles per second.

Rayet 140, has been closely studied, revealing the formation and outward expansion of carbon-rich dust shells. Data from the ...

NASA's upcoming Pandora mission, poised for launch later this year, promises to revolutionize our understanding of exoplanet ...

An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new observations with the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, have let astronomers read the entrails, astronomers report ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured photos of one of the earliest supernovas ever seen using infrared technology, and ...

An international team led by astronomers at Leiden University has shown in laboratory experiments that sulfur can bind with ...