NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has found water vapor swirling in the air of a distant, boiling-hot alien planet, a new ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope for the largest and deepest sample of galaxy groups, some of which were up to ...

Thanks to JWST, we've learned key details about methanol — a key building block for organic compounds necessary for life — on ...

Galaxies speckle the heavens like stars in a stunning new photo of the deep and distant universe.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have confirmed the existence of the first known planet closely ...

There’s a new class of cosmic object in town. And it might just overturn our understanding of black holes and galaxy ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have peered into galaxies that existed at cosmic noon to hunt ravenously ...

The boundless potential of astronomical discovery contrasts sharply with the backwardness and reaction promoted by Trump and ...

By comparing those fingerprints to 20 different molecules that they would potentially expect to observe in the atmosphere, ...

It is a small area of the sky, equivalent to holding a square of one millimeter by one millimeter at arm’s length. But tens ...

A surprisingly well-formed spiral galaxy has been spotted just a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging long-held ...

Astronomers published evidence of possible biosignatures on the planet K2-18b earlier this month, but another look at the ...