A new collage from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals eight dazzling examples of gravitational lensing.

Images taken by JWST reveal the star that became SN2025pht before it exploded, providing our best view of a red supergiant ...

Star formation is a fundamental physical process in our universe. Stars light up the cosmos, and give rise to planets, some of which may support life. While humans have no doubt wondered about stars ...

So how many stars are there? Given all of the above, astronomers estimate that the Milky Way contains around 100 billion stars, and there are at least 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe.

In a new study, a team of astronomers report that they have captured the most detailed glimpse yet of a red supergiant before ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's latest image shows eight spectacular examples of gravitational lensing, a phenomenon that ...

Using the wide-field survey capabilities of the Subaru Telescope, astronomers discovered active supermassive black holes, or quasars, in the distant universe and then studied them with the James Webb ...

JWST’s mid-infrared images of Sagittarius B2 uncover dense clouds of cosmic dust hiding active star formation.

This spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows a star cocooned within a massive disk of gas and dust. It's a protoplanetary disk — a ring of dense gas and dust surrounding ...