The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright objects on telescope images. The stars follow a nine-year orbit and are ...

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE mission, to make infrared observations. This was the latest in a line of space-based, infrared observatories, and it cost about ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into the deepest cosmos and reveal new insights about the early universe. It's ...

A deep field image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI | mash mix: Space.com Music: Tranquil Dawn by Amber Glow / courtesy of ...

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

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image of planetary nebula NGC 1514 to date thanks to its unique mid-infrared observations. Webb shows its rings as intricate clumps of ...

Planets are eaten by dying stars as they turn into red giants and expand. Earth will be eaten by the sun in billions of years ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration spotted the asteroid 2024 YR4 for the first time; previously thought to have a ...

Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, has revealed ejections from still-forming ...

Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...

WASHINGTON — Neptune's glowing auroras have been captured in the minutest detail yet by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Hints of auroras were first detected in ultraviolet light during a flyby of ...

Now, the James Webb Space Telescope has solved this mystery. On January 12, 2006, astronomers scanning a nearby star-forming region with the Spitzer Space Telescope captured a image of an odd ...