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

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

Travel 500 million light-years into the James Webb Space Telescope's amazing view of the Cartwheel Galaxy. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, STScI, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, ...

A massive star on the distant outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy is seen blowing a powerful cosmic blowtorch in a new image ...

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 have investigated a "failed star," or brown dwarf, nicknamed "The ...

Supermassive black holes discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early universe challenge traditional formation ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a new view of a planet-forming disk within the Taurus star-forming region.

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

When the "little red dots" were first discovered in 2022, scientists thought the objects might be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way, which is about 13.6 billion years old. That's because galaxies ...

The James Webb Space Telescope cannot observe Earth directly. It is too bright and could damage the telescope. However, ...

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