Two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 collide, forming carbon-rich dust. Webb captured 17 expanding dust shells, revealing ...

U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered mysterious "little red dots" scattered across the early universe. Could these ...

Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

There is a lot of complicated but beautiful physics in understanding how this explosion takes place,” says Purdue University ...

Dec. 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the Universe is expanding. For the ...

A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data from multiple surveys to compile one of the largest ...

Ashley Zelinskie's VR artwork Twin Quasar was inspired by the iconic deep-space image from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, these massive objects are upending astronomers’ timeline for how early ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar ...

Soon after it came online in 2022, Webb observations revealed a population of tiny red objects dubbed little red dots (LRDs).