HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals unprecedented details of it.

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

Discovered on December 27, 2024, asteroid 2024 YR4 is currently rated as a three on the Torino scale. Space agencies around the world are closely monitoring ...

Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's s MIRI and NIRCam instruments have captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 2090. The ...

"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

"These grains are only one millionth of a meter across." The image above may look similar to a combat scene in an Avengers movie, but it's actually a uniquely lit-up view of the dust and gas ...

The chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth with enough force to destroy a small country have been increased to 1 in 43.

NASA's upcoming Pandora mission will complement the James Webb Space Telescope by making it easier to detect water in the ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

The Webb images show dense sheets of gas and dust stretching across hundreds of astronomical units. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured highly detailed images showing the complex layers ...