Learn what this survey recorded of exocomet belts, which imaged and identified bands of every size.

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.

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 ...

"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 ...

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

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

While large portions of the pillars appear dark red in the Hubble image, the JWST image depicts most of the formation in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured photos of one of the earliest supernovas ever seen using infrared technology, and ...

Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better understand star ...

Beyond making missions safer, this tech also improves the experience for engineers back on Earth, helping them understand the ...