Astronomers found an atmosphere where they least expected it—clinging to an exoplanet that’s too small, too hot and too old ...

The beads appear above a swirling hexagonal jet stream at the gas giant's north pole, and could emerge from interactions ...

On December 25, 2021, the largest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was launched into space ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists took an infrared image of a young star cluster called Pismis 24, a spot ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists uncovered bizarre atmospheric structures on Saturn, including drifting “dark beads” in the ionosphere and an asymmetric star pattern in the ...

The Cartwheel lies about 500 million light-years away in Sculptor. Its wagon-wheel shape formed after a violent collision ...

Astronomers are pulling back the curtain on two of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how planets are born and how invisible ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers from the University of Florida and elsewhere have performed infrared ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have investigated a "failed star," or brown dwarf, nicknamed "The ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just unveiled a new image of the Butterfly Nebula, and it isn’t just beautiful—it ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured infant stars carving peaks of dust and gas in the Pismis 24 star cluster.

"It's an elegant answer, really, because we thought it was a tiny galaxy full of many separate cold stars, but it's actually, ...