"I was astonished by the unexpected results because they opened a new view on the first phases of galaxy evolution." ...

In the turbulent heart of the Milky Way, near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, astronomers have uncovered a ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...

The JWST is the largest, most powerful space telescope ever deployed. It sees further into the infrared than any previous ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

NASA’s Webb Telescope captured twin stars forming in Lynds 483, hidden in a dust cloud. The stars are shaping glowing ...

Collisions are a growing risk as space gets more crowded, and greenhouse gas emissions could make things worse. Greenhouse ...

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...

Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby star. Also called molecular clouds, these regions of space can be ...

High-resolution near-infrared light captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope shows extraordinary new detail ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...