Discover the latest findings on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, from rare methane detections to high-resolution Hubble images, as it begins its final exit from our solar system.

“It’s very slow, but over billions of years, it’s a very strong effect.” That is the main surprise of the observations of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS by the James Webb Space Telescope: the ...

Deep inside a dust-choked galaxy, astronomers have uncovered a chemical environment far more complex than expected.

New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

JWST observed Uranus for nearly a full rotation, charting the planet's upper atmosphere and magnetic environment for the first time.

A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to discover a former star that ...

The nebula is possibly being produced by a type of unstable star called a Wolf–Rayet star.

"This data provides us with rare insight into how galaxies were transformed in the early universe." ...

Recent observations suggest that 'runaway' black holes are tumbling through the cosmos. Building on decades of theory, the discovery adds a remarkable new chapter to the story of the universe. When ...

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Through the looking glass: In the faint distortions of distant galaxies, astronomers have glimpsed the scaffolding of the universe. A new high-resolution dark matter map, created using data from the ...