The James Webb Space Telescope captured images of 44 individual stars in a gorgeous portrait of a distant galaxy.

The cutting-edge observatory is charged with seeing some of the earliest visible light, and the recent image achieves a new ...

A phenomenon called gravitational lensing turned a galaxy into a "hall of mirrors of cosmic proportions," allowing for the discovery.

Take a tour of the amazing Ring Nebula image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/Institute for Earth and Space Exploration/JWST Ring Nebula Imaging Project ...

Farmers face an uphill battle when it comes to meeting rising food demands while also dealing with more erratic weather ...

The hunt for exoplanets began in earnest in the 1990s when the first confirmed discovery was made. Since then, astronomers ...

In the last couple of decades, it’s become increasingly clear that massive galaxies like our own Milky Way host supermassive ...

Luck has recently led to the discovery of several individual stars in extremely distant galaxies. 44 in a single galaxy, ...

UCF researchers utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover unique characteristics of (2060) Chiron, a distant "centaur" that exhibits traits of both a comet and an asteroid. These findings ...

The CEO of Sierra Nevada Corp's space spinoff, Sierra Space, has left the company, with billionaire chairman Fatih Ozmen filling in as interim CEO, the company said in a statement on Monday.

Looking halfway across the observable universe and expecting to see individual stars is considered a non-starter in astronomy ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...