Carnegie scientists used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to look at the molten planet orbiting in the Milky Way's thick disk ...

While scientists discovered the Cosmic Vine using the James Webb Space Telescope, they have yet to find a string of galaxies ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured views of the Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) molecular cloud with its NIRCam ...

Binary stars are known to transfer mass to one another. In extreme cases, mass transfer can even cause a supernova explosion. That happens when a white dwarf draws matter from a companion. But ...

Astronomers have uncovered surprising evidence of a thick atmosphere surrounding TOI-561 b, a scorching, fast-orbiting rocky planet once thought too extreme to hold onto any gas. Using NASA’s James ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be deployed to the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2), some one million miles (1 ...

A breakthrough in the cosmic caper came in 2023, when a team of researchers led by Anna de Graaff, a Clay Fellow at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, used the Webb telescope to analyze ...

Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the ...

They discovered that the host galaxy is incredibly massive — weighing in at over 40 billion times the mass of our Sun — and deeply obscured. The James Webb Space Telescope, which can peer through gas ...

The levels of a heavy form of hydrogen in 3I/ATLAS are 30 to 40 times higher than in Earth's oceans, suggesting the comet has ...

Astronomers have discovered a unique molten planet, L 98-59 d, orbiting the red dwarf star in the Volans constellation. It features a perpetual ocean of magma and a sulfur-rich atmosphere, making it a ...