The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, these massive objects are upending astronomers’ timeline for how early galaxies formed.

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar ...

The James Webb Space Telescope identified one of the oldest supernovas, AT 2023adsv, revealing early universe phenomena ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the infrared glow of an ancient supernova's light echo, revealing unprecedented 3D details of interstellar dust and gas. The space between stars is ...

For years, astronomers and astrochemists have puzzled over two big mysteries in space. First, they noticed that dense clouds ...

Learn about the thermal light echo, observed by NASA, that causes intricate layers of interstellar gas and dust to emit an ...

"We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don't see, look like this on the inside — we just ...

This colorful view of N79 centers on a star-forming molecular cloud complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Though space is chock-full of interstellar medium, it tends to be invisible unless lit up by a celestial spotlight. Sometimes ...

Photographer Josh Dury captured rare Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas) in a dramatic 'once-in-a-lifetime' image after a challenging ...

The shells of carbon-rich dust are expanding outward into space at the breakneck velocity of 1,600 miles per second.