Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers traced how Milky Way–like galaxies formed and changed over time.

Some newly found stars in a small galaxy called Sextans A are forming without some of the usual "ingredients," raising ...

Cosmic archeologists have used the James Webb Space Telescope to excavate ancient disk galaxies that tell the story of how ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured views of the Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) molecular cloud with its NIRCam and MIRI instruments. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A. Ginsburg ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C ...

Recently, the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) took a stunning image of the star cluster known as Westerlund 2, located in ...

Sagittarius A* flickers every hour, making it a challenging target for telescopes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The James Webb ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, UK scientists have found an atmosphere on a red hot planet 280 light years away, in the ...

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of a black hole, located 53 million light-years away in the ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

Fourth anniversaries aren’t often causes for celebration. But in the case of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which launched on Dec. 25, 2021, this anniversary marks an important transition.

Imagine hearing a sound that began its journey before our galaxy even existed. That is what astronomers are doing now. They ...