The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...
A deep field image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA ...
Scientists recently detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the frozen surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon. The researchers conducted the survey using the James Webb ...
Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...
These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.
The Hubble Space Telescope was carried to space inside the space shuttle Discovery and then released into low-Earth ...
The galaxies, IC 2163 on the left and NGC 2207, are about 114 light-years away from Earth, located in the Eridanus and Canis ...
The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but ...
Vega, one of the brightest, most famous and most important stars in the night sky, has no evidence of giant planets around it ...
The telescope is the length of a large school bus and weighs as much as two adult elephants. Hubble is still in service ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a feeding black hole in the early universe that seems to be eating 40 times faster than is theoretically possible.