HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...

Unlike images taken by professional space telescopes, McCarthy’s stunning photo of the Andromeda Galaxy excels ... as those from Hubble or James Webb, but his technique of combining broadband ...

"It was actually a total surprise to find the satellites in that configuration and we still don’t fully understand why they appear that way." ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.

In fact, scientists didn't really expect that stars would even be able to still form at all in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, an image of which the James Webb Telescope recently captured in ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the stunning image of Cartwheel Galaxy. This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, ...

An curved arrow pointing right. We decoded six of the most recent images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to see how scientists are using them to understand our origins. More from ...

This near-infrared image of a portion of the Flame Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope highlights three low-mass objects, seen in the insets to the right. These objects, which are much ...

Why it's so special: What are the smallest stars? A deep dive into the star-forming Flame Nebula by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed free-floating, Jupiter-size objects that ...