The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.

Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's s MIRI and NIRCam instruments have captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 2090. The ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

"Understanding these weather processes will be crucial as we continue to discover and characterize exoworlds in the future." ...

MIT joins the consortium building the Giant Magellan Telescope, thanks to a donation by Phillip and Susan Ragon.

While I enjoy stargazing as much as the next person, I also love to know how things work – to get under the hood. French ...

Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have ...

The Webb telescope detected interstellar dust from a galaxy that was 114,000 light-years from the galactic core, defying ...

Why build a telescope? YOLO, as the kids say. Having decided that, one must decide what type of far-seer one will construct.

Sagittarius B2, a massive molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way, is densely packed with stars and complex magnetic ...