See amazing imagery of the Carina Nebula as captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center astrophysicist Amber Straughn explains. Credit: NASA ...

This mid-infrared image of colliding galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 from the James Webb Space Telescope shows two large ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located ...

Now, to the dismay of researchers, a new study designed to double-check the calculated rate of the universe's expansion – ...

Wellesley College astronomers capture images of 'Firefly Sparkle,' a young galaxy that mirrors the Milky Way, enhancing our ...

The Hubble tension is one of the most hotly debated discrepancies in all of astronomy. It centers around a number called the ...

Dinosaur fossils from the Jurassic era will be auctioned in London, with estimates reaching millions. Christie's will offer an adult and juvenile Allosaurus and a Stegosaurus fossil. Additionally, ...

Astronomers at MIT have detected the smallest asteroids ever, measuring just 10 metres across, using data from NASA's James ...

The Firefly Sparkle galaxy is so named because it resembles a "sparkle" or swarm of lightning bugs on a warm summer night.

The young galaxy is only 6,500 light years from its first companion and 42,000 light years from its second. In comparison, the fully formed Milky Way is 100,000 light years across and could easily fit ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted "Firefly Sparkle," a tiny, young galaxy from just 600 million years after the ...

This galaxy, which is stretched and magnified, glitters with 10 distinct star clusters that formed at different times.