Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb ...

The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

Take a journey to the James Webb Space Telescope's stunning view of giant galaxy cluster WHL0137-08. Credit: Space.com | zoom ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows thousands of glittering galaxies that it spied by peering through ...

NASA released stunning images of the NGC 1514 nebula, showcasing the most vivid depiction of its dual rings ever captured.

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE mission, to make infrared observations. This was the latest in a line of space-based, infrared observatories, and it cost about ...

Lingering Brightness Provides Evidence for How the Planet Met Its Demise Each year, scientists from around the world compete for a chance to use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Proposals go through ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning new images of an asteroid that was once ranked as the biggest threat ...

Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by ...

When the planet finally fell in toward the star, it splashed away layers of gas from the star’s outer atmosphere, and this gas gradually cooled into cold dust which now sits as a cloud around the star ...