Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN)'s backdrop is dominated by the Eagle Nebula — a vast cosmic structure of dust and hydrogen-rich gas ...

The twin telescopes of the Gemini Observatory mark 25 years of discovery as students name distant nebula Ua ʻŌhiʻa Lan.

Due to the costs and duration of the Hubble project, NASA was under pressure. At the end of 1995, it released a photo that ...

The James Webb captures a more panoramic image of stars and galaxies, spectacular visuals that were missed by most other ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed the iconic Pillars of Creation and the view is spectacular! Travel 6,500 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This image provided by NSF NOIRLab shows NGC 6302 ...

Remarkable new images from the James Webb Space Telescope have captured the first-ever view of four dust spirals surrounding the Wolf-Rayet stars in the Apep system. “Looking at Webb’s new ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine distant galaxies in the far reaches of the early universe for the first time. Some of these have chemical signatures that seem ...

A team of astronomers has discovered a supermassive black hole that is 100 million times the mass of the sun. This impressive discovery was found using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) ...

Webb's mid-infrared image shows four coiled shells of dust around a pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep for the first time (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Science: Yinuo Han (Caltech), Ryan White ...

"This is a one-of-a-kind system with an incredibly rare orbital period." A nested series of dusty spirals is captured swirling around a mighty triple star system containing two of the rarest stars in ...

The binary system Apep has a stack of four nested dust shells around two Wolf-Rayet stars. A third star creates a wedge-shaped gap in the pattern. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Yinuo Han / Ryan White / ...