A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a ...

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...

Astronomers studying a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy similar to our Milky Way may have just witnessed how ...

One of the first verified predictions of general relativity is the gravitational deflection of starlight. The effect was ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals a cosmic mirage known as an Einstein ring, where the light ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a beautiful juxtaposition of the nearby protostellar outflow known ...

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb ...

Learn about a new observation of a galaxy emitting ultraviolet light that broke through the early universe's dense fog.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled an awe-inspiring celestial spectacle of a spiral galaxy interacting with a ...

Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we ...