Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations have revealed a galaxy that shouldn’t exist, a complex spiral galaxy named ...

Astronomers are confronting galaxies that look too big and too old for the early universe, hikers and internet sleuths are ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has already captured some incredible images of our universe, with some game-changing insights to boot. But researchers at New York's Rensselaer Polytechnic ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has pushed the cosmic frontier back to a time when the universe was still in its infancy, ...

"This observation also demonstrates that we can use Webb to find individual stars when the universe was only 5% of its ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

The space agency said supernovas typically brighten rapidly over a period of several weeks before they slowly start to dim. This example, however, took months to ...

Jupiter’s dazzling auroras are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth, new images from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal. The solar system’s largest planet displays striking dancing ...

Scientists have long been aware of the massive elliptical galaxy, M87. The galaxy was first observed in the late 18th century by Charles Messier, who cataloged objects in the sky specifically to avoid ...

The Geminids peak Dec. 13, producing up to 120 meteors per hour visible from 8 p.m. until sunrise. Plus, a recap of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is NASA’s flagship mission successor to the highly successful Hubble Space Telescope. It is an infrared observatory featuring a cryogenic 6.6 m aperture, ...