NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed that an exceptionally rare star duo in the Milky Way has a third companion — ...

A nested series of dusty spirals is captured swirling around a mighty triple star system containing two of the rarest stars ...

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a sprawling helium cloud known as an exosphere. This exosphere stretches ...

Zoom into an amazing James Webb Space Telescope view of galaxy NGC 3256. It is " the wreckage of a head-on collision between ...

WASHINGTON -- A stellar nursery where stars are born, interactions between galaxies and a unique view of an exoplanet are just some of the new cosmic images were shared Tuesday. After decades of ...

Since then, over 6,000 confirmed exoplanets —or planets orbiting other stars—have been found, leading astronomers to conclude ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) has joined forces to deliver a new view of the Butterfly Nebula, located about 3400 light-years away ...

The search for extraterrestrial life represents one of humanity’s most profound scientific quests—one that could fundamentally reshape our understanding of our place in the universe. Yet current ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured a highly detailed snapshot of the so-called Pillars of Creation, a vista of three looming towers made of interstellar dust and gas that's speckled with newly ...

A newly proposed type of supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense gas shell may account for the small red dots seen in ...

The Gemini South telescope in Chile captured this stunning view of NGC 6302, highlighting the nebula’s intricate structure ...

A high-altitude balloon telescope has revealed new patterns in X-rays emitted near the black hole Cygnus X-1. These signals ...