The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's s MIRI and NIRCam instruments have captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 2090. The ...

Finding a Saturn-sized world around the young star TWA 7 could pave the way for the Webb space telescope’s direct observation of other exoplanets.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed thick, dusty layers of the Cat's Claw Nebula, a region of star formation about 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius, the agency has ...

Cosmic archeologists have used the James Webb Space Telescope to excavate ancient disk galaxies that tell the story of how the Milky Way and other modern galaxies evolved.

Astronomers have discovered a "fossil" world lying in the outskirts of the solar system, according to new research.

Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever ...

This lifespan began roughly 4.6 billion years ago, and will continue for about another 4.5 - 5.5 billion years, when it will deplete its supply of hydrogen, helium, and collapse into a white dwarf.

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in 1968 aboard an Atlas-Centaur rocket, as per the National Space Centre.

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals how the dark matter is distributed.

A remote outcrop in Canada harbors rocks that are at least 4.16 billion years old, researchers report June 26 in Science. If true, these rocks would be the oldest known on Earth and the first to ...