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

Gold hit fresh record highs on Thursday as investors sought a refuge from the turbulence surrounding trade tensions between ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope believe they've made the first detection of a star swallowing a planet — with a grim twist.

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

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

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

JWST discovers Zhúlóng, the earliest Milky Way-like galaxy, 800 million years after the Big Bang explosion occurred.

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

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 ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at potential first signs of life on another world, an FDA greenlight for ...

The potential discovery of life elsewhere is down to the unprecedented sensitivity of Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope.