Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of ...

To do that, humans have built some of the most spectacular astronomical observatories around the world, capable of peering into the vast void of space and capturing images that astound. The James Webb ...

Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

The image of the amazing light show, that looks like a tornado in the stars, combines observations from two different cameras ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured direct images of Neptune's elusive auroras for the first time ...

The first galaxies in the Universe were born enshrouded in a “foggy” gas, and could not be seen clearly until they had ...

Don't worry – it's still not a danger to Earth for the time being. When we last checked in, odds of a collision between 2024 ...

For a long time, scientists thought that only actively star-forming galaxies should be observed in the very early Universe.

For now, researchers think the light might be coming from the first stars to exist, or outflows from a supermassive black ...

The NASA James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning image of an Einstein ring, an optical phenomenon created by ...