Rings of a dying star are revealed in the nebula NGC 1514. The Webb Telescope reveals a chaotic scene long hidden from view.

"We've always known that we need something to complete the puzzle, but we haven't really known what shape or form those ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured an unprecedentedly sharp image of planetary nebula NGC 1514, revealing ...

The new JWST observations resolve the pair of rings clearly and also show the clumps and filaments in more detail. Inside the rings is cloud-like material that appears turbulent, while just outside of ...

Looking for a really big story, I naturally headed for "Galaxies in Collision." Bradley Whitmore of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore brought us up to speed. We've known for a ...

How small can you go when forming stars and brown dwarfs? The Flame Nebula, part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, is a ...

Thanks to mid-infrared images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the center ...

This 2024 image from NASA’s Webb Telescope reveals the star cluster NGC 602 in the Small Magellanic Cloud, with candidates ...

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and several years ago he saw something he couldn’t explain. Farnocchia works at ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows thousands of glittering galaxies that it spied by peering through ...

Researchers mapped a far-infrared landscape brimming with nearly 2,000 galaxies. There may be "hidden galaxies" lurking just out of sight.