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The James Webb Space Telescope and the Parker Solar Probe changed how we see the universe. Now, their models have found a home at the Smithsonian
Imagine an enormous telescope with a sun shield the size of a tennis court that sends back proof of a lemon-shaped exoplanet ...
A study of the fascinating galaxy system nicknamed "The Stingray" suggests that mysterious little red dots could be a phase ...
Webb captured the object in infrared — light wavelengths that are invisible to human eyes but can pierce through thick dust. The new views, in both near and mid-infrared, sharpen details from the ...
Astronomers have spotted a bizarre cosmic explosion that refuses to play by the rules—and it’s leaving scientists scrambling for answers. GRB 250702B, detected by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and ...
When NASA launched its $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope in 2021, scientists hailed the mission as the greatest achievement of its kind in over three decades. Soon, however, scientists noticed a ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated the star-forming region W51, resulting in stunning new ...
James Webb Telescope inspects spiral galaxies, revealing never-before-seen details of star formation
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...
NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured an astonishing photograph of a star in outer space recently. In the latest footage captured by the James Webb Telescope, a nebula has been revealed surrounding a ...
Coiled and snakelike, a set of four identical shells surrounds a violent stellar dance 8,000 light-years from Earth. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope delivered a mid-infrared image showing shells of ...
New Images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope show Saturn in both infrared and visible light.
The binary system Apep has a stack of four nested dust shells around two Wolf-Rayet stars. A third star creates a wedge-shaped gap in the pattern. - NASA / ESA / CSA / Yinuo Han / Ryan White / Alyssa ...
Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the most powerful space telescope ever made. Astronomers now call them little red ...
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