See the iconic Pillars of Creation in this 3D visualization created from James Webb and Hubble Space Telescope data. Credits ...

Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that ...

The landscape of "mountains" and "valleys" known as the Cosmic Cliffs is actually a portion of the nebula Gum 31, which contains a young star cluster called NGC 3324. Both Gum 31 and NGC 3324 are part ...

Scientists have long been aware of the massive elliptical galaxy, M87. The galaxy was first observed in the late 18th century by Charles Messier, who cataloged objects in the sky specifically to avoid ...

The Bullet Cluster, named for its distinctive shape, has long been considered a smoking gun for the existence of dark matter in space. (Sorry, couldn't resist the pun ...

"TRAPPIST-1e has long been considered one of the best habitable zone planets to search for an atmosphere." Astronomers have investigated the atmosphere and potential habitability of a famous ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet K2-18b has revealed the "strongest hints yet of biological activity outside the solar system," according to a University of Cambridge study.

Open science just got a stellar upgrade. On Thursday, NASA-backed COSMOS-Web made 1.5 terabytes of the James Webb Space Telescope's observational data available online, free of charge. It's the ...