Now, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers may have cracked this puzzle, finding the first evidence of a ...

Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.

According to an early budget proposal that leaked earlier this year, the Trump administration is planning to cut NASA's ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has pointed its infrared optics at the 'Crystal Ball Nebula' NGC 1514, a planetary nebula ...

ESA/Hubble In a first for astronomers surveying the depths of space, carbon dioxide has been detected on an exoplanet – that is, a planet lying outside our solar system. Thanks to the coronagraph ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

Let's start with the human eye. The human eye has an angular resolution of about 1 arcminute. That's pretty impressive. Take a circle surrounding you on the horizon, divide it into 360 little bits, ...

The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers said they were able to detect signs of sulfur-based molecules called dimethyl sulfide or DMS, which on Earth are only produced by life, primarily ...

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mission to make infrared observations. This was the ...