"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other. An elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy appear as one celestial body as a ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An elliptical galaxy (at center) is seen being wrapped by a spiral galaxy forming a single ...

Astronomers, using the James Webb Space Telescope, captured the first direct images of Neptune's auroras, revealing light shows previously believed to exist but unseen. These auroras appear at ...

This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month features a rare cosmic phenomenon called an Einstein ring. What at first appears to be a single, strangely shaped galaxy is ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez Space is phantasmagorical. Astronomers using the powerful ...

There are often surprises when looking up into the night sky. This time, a rare sighting—an Einstein ring—was captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The glowing, eye-like circle in ...

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...

Neptune's auroras have been seen in full view for the first time. They were captured on camera by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. While there was no hard evidence, astronomers had long ...