"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 ...

How do images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear so colorful, and where do the colors come from?

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

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

The initial findings offer novel perspectives on the relationship between star formation and the evolution of galaxies.

NASA's exoplanet mission, Pandora, is closer to launch after completing its spacecraft bus. This mission aims to study the ...

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now a research team has studied hundreds ...

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

In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal, a team of researchers led by Kristen McQuinn, a scientist at the Space ...

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

Rare blue lurker star found in the M67 open star cluster Unusual rotation speed linked to stellar mergers in a triple system ...

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...