The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

Named Kohoutek 4-55, the nebula was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Planetary nebulae like Kohoutek 4-55 are the ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb ...

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE mission, to make infrared observations. This was the latest in a line of space-based, infrared observatories, and it cost about ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent final stages of a dying star's life.

Take a journey to the James Webb Space Telescope's stunning view of giant galaxy cluster WHL0137-08. Credit: Space.com | zoom-in courtesy: NASA, ESA, CSA, Alyssa Pagan (STScI) / Acknowledgment: NSF's ...

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it ...

High school senior Matteo Paz stunned the astronomy world by uncovering 1.5 million previously unknown cosmic objects using a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

A new NASA space telescope has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing its first light in images that contain ...

The PRIME telescope, operated by Osaka University and others in South Africa, which can potentially study the Milky Way's ...