The most powerful telescope ever launched into space uncovered a cluster of forming stars within the "toe beans" of the Cat's ...

The whole picture doesn’t become clear until you combine Webb data with Hubble data,” stated Rogier Windhorst, Regents Professor at Arizona State University, captioning a revolution in cosmic vision.

However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

The James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) is celebrating three years of transformational science with a striking new image of ...

New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula.

A mobile app lets citizen scientists flag anomalies in space that are hard for computers to detect.

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

With the bright Moon lighting the sky our focus is on easy-to-spot targets tonight, such as Albireo at the head of Cygnus the ...

Astronomers have taken the first ever image that shows what happens when a star explodes twice in a supernova.

In the constellation Perseus the Hero, the star Algol is fun to watch due to its regular changes in brightness. And you don’t ...

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” supernova, where an initial helium blast on the star’s surface triggers a ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...