The James Webb Space Telescope is a collaborative effort between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. Unlike the Hubble Space Telescope, which orbits around the Earth, Webb ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

Cosmic microwave background data support cosmology’s standard model but retain a mystery about the universe’s expansion rate.

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

You can make the case that none of them are in true color. But then again, if they were, they’d be unable to reveal the true ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...

Over 50,000 submissions are made for images on U.S. stamps every year, and out of those, about 40 are turned into real stamps ...

Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey ...

Such major and arbitrary cuts to NASA’s budget would do very little to save money, but they will undercut and decimate one of ...