An immense water world, right in our cosmic backyard, could be teeming with alien life. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has found a pair of gases in a distant alien world's ...

Explore 21 of the most remarkable images taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, showcasing the beauty and vastness of ...

A new study suggests the universe may rotate -- just extremely slowly. The finding could help solve one of astronomy's biggest puzzles.

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

This week, markets recoil in response to the rollout of a controversial new "Liberation Day" tariff regime as global tensions ...

Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, has revealed ejections from still-forming ...

A jaw-dropping new space image shows one galaxy hiding behind another. The rare cosmic phenomenon, called an Einstein ring, occurs when massive objects can bend light due to their gravitational ...

GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a rare cosmic alignment featuring a newborn star’s outflow, known as Herbig-Haro 49/50 (HH 49/50), alongside a distant spiral galaxy. This image provides ...

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb Space Telescope ... 49/50 the nickname “Cosmic Tornado.” ...

The latest image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, pictured above, also happens to be a stunning illustration of Einstein's theory of general relativity. So much so that the cosmic phenomenon is ...