The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

Unexpected, Bright Hydrogen Emission Caught Astronomers by Surprise In the early universe, space was filled with a dense fog of neutral hydrogen gas. Although the first stars and galaxies gave off ...

Astrophysicist and artist Ed Belbruno explains how art helps scientists communicate their work to the public and even ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb discusses how scientists trace the cosmic journey of high-energy neutrinos from the Big Bang to ...

"Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it came to detecting auroras on the giant planets," said the European Space Agency.

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

NASA's James Webb telescope has captured an incredible image in its 'best ever detail' - but something about the discovery is ...

Astronomers have identified a bright hydrogen emission from a galaxy in the very early universe. The surprise finding is ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ancient and faraway galaxy that provides evidence that an ...

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

GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.

Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we ...