The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet, but ...

The photos capture both our neighboring planets and galaxies far, far away in a stunning release to celebrate one of NASA’s ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a stunning backdrop. The ‘return’ of an ...

When completed, the appropriately named Extremely Large Telescope (ELT ... be capable of directly imaging rocky planets around other stars and detecting signatures of life in other star systems.

An undated image from NASA’s Webb Space Telescope shows an outflow from a nearby still-forming star in infrared light, with a spiral galaxy off in the distance. (NASA via AP) 32,625 people ...