See the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope's view of Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334) to celebrate the observatory's 3rd year ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) captured imagery of a pair of stars called Wolf-Rayet 140.

As telescopes peer into the universe, they sometimes see quirks of nature that magnify faraway objects. These eight galaxies recently imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear stretched, ...

Here’s a story for the ages — or maybe a story of the ages. The Hubble Space Telescope’s latest image, of barred spiral galaxy NGC 6000, is rich in yellow at its center and blue on its outskirts, but ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion-powered suns, but enormous “supermassive dark stars” powered by dark ...

"It's the reddest, dustiest red supergiant that we've seen explode as a supernova." For decades, astronomers have searched the skies for a missing population of doomed stars — the massive red ...

A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers has captured the most detailed glimpse yet of a doomed star before it exploded. Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the international team ...

The main image at left shows a combined Webb and Hubble view of spiral galaxy NGC 1637, with the region of interest in the top right. The remaining three panels show a detailed view of a red ...

Because the spacecraft are equipped with cameras that aren't designed to observe an object so far away, the images they captured were fuzzy. Still, scientists were able to get a little bit of a look ...

TALKING ABOUT TELESCOPES: The James Webb Space Telescope peers deeper into space and reveals more heavenly secrets than any instrument ever produced. (Submitted Photo) Launched Christmas, 2021, and ...