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

Another stunning image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a plume of warm dust and gas formed by jets from a baby star ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

A new model that incorporates data gathered by the JWST could help scientists understand the composition and mass of objects ...

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

This preferred direction of spin might be due to one of two reasons: either our entire universe exists in a black hole, or ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. This planet, five ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0, challenging current understanding of ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...