The 18th day of the annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar shows a dying star that is casting off its outer layers, creating ...

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope spotted huge stars leaking nitrogen in an early galaxy, hinting that such ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was involved in yet another first discovery recently available in pre-print form on ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has been helping scientists explore the cosmos for years now, but there are still plenty of ...

James Webb Space Telescope detects extreme nitrogen in galaxy GS 3073, providing evidence of supermassive Population III stars and their role in forming early supermassive black holes.

"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time, revealing cosmic secrets ...

Hidden star found orbiting a bloated red giant, Pi1 Gruis, offering a rare glimpse into how close companions shape dying ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive hidden planet and a rare “failed star” by combining ultra-precise space data with some of the sharpest ground-based images ever taken. Using the Subaru Telescope ...

However, astronomers in Hawaii just spotted a pair of exciting discoveries — a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf — using Japan’s Subaru Telescope, which sits atop Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano on the ...

The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

While these free events do indeed happen each month, the gathering that's set to sparkle Dec. 20 feels a bit special: It's ...