A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope captured an amazing view of the planet Uranus, its rings and moons. Webb's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) snapped the imagery. Credit: Space.com | imagery ...

The JWST has done it again. The powerful space telescope has already revealed the presence of bright galaxies only several ...

The improved capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have allowed an international team of astronomers to ...

The fundamental building blocks for planet formation can exist even in environments with extreme ultraviolet radiation, according to a new study.

The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has discovered water ice in a young star amongst the solar systems debris belt.

The galaxy MoM-z14 dates back to 280 million years after the big bang, and the prevalence of such early galaxies is puzzling ...

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

A binary system 18,000 light-years away, emits X-rays as a Sun-like star orbits a dense companion, either a neutron star or black hole. Telescopes like Chandra, IXPE, and XMM-Newton capture its ...

At long last, particles of water–ice have been discovered in the frozen Kuiper Belt of another star. The discovery, made by ...