A nearby galaxy is ablaze with new stars in a dazzling new image from the James Webb Space Telescope.

Young stars coming to life out of the proverbial celestial dust is perhaps the most captivating sight in the cosmos. Check ...

On the Webb telescope, 18 hexagonal mirrors combine to form a massive primary mirror that is 21 feet (6.5 meters) across. The surface area of this mirror is six times larger than that of the Hubble ...

"Over time, the supernova-enriched gas is incorporated ... and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on the James Webb Space Telescope over the course of 17 minutes. During this time, astronomers used ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch ... This image shows the supernova remnant 6,500 light-years away in incredible detail. The red-orange sections indicate the presence of ionized ...

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“Before the first stars exploded, there was no water in the Universe because there was no oxygen,” said Daniel Whalen, a ...

In this image of the Serpens Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found a grouping of aligned protostellar outflows within one small region (the top left corner). The Cassiopeia ...

Water is an essential part of life on Earth, and possibly elsewhere – and now it we know it may have formed not long after ...

A blast of radio waves from the outskirts of an ancient galaxy challenges theories about what creates such bursts.