"It's an elegant answer, really, because we thought it was a tiny galaxy full of many separate cold stars, but it's actually, ...

Astronomers theorise that they are early galaxies that existed earlier than 700 million years after the Big Bang.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have investigated a "failed star," or brown dwarf, nicknamed "The ...

The James Webb Space Telescope caught the birth of an enormous star with particle beams cutting across a stretch of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured infant stars carving peaks of dust and gas in the Pismis 24 star cluster.

Located about 5,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius, lies a small open star cluster known as Pismis 24.

The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a new view of a planet-forming disk within the Taurus star-forming region.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a planet-forming disk that almost entirely lacks water, ...

Westerlund 1, the biggest and closest "super" star cluster to Earth, dazzles in this image released on July 23, 2025. This ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was built to study the first stars and galaxies that formed in the universe. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez illustration When astronomers pointed ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Telescope observations reveal a growing tail on the comet that’s visiting from another star.

A Kenosha astronomer has uncovered a piece of astronomy history — a telescope once thought to be lost forever.