Astronomers found the most distant nuclear disc ever seen, showing galaxies became organized far earlier in the Universe than ...

Four years after its first images reached the public, the James Webb Space Telescope has marked the anniversary with a portrait of a galaxy still bearing the scars of a violent encounter billions of ...

The images shed light on the galaxy’s past and star clusters that other telescopes couldn’t in what the astronomers are calling a case of “galactic archaeology” ...

Earlier visible-light observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could not show the galaxy's central region because dust blocked the view.

A giant planet had been hiding inside one of astronomy’s most closely studied planetary systems, concealed by a bright disk of cosmic dust. Webb revealed Beta Pictoris d through atmospheric traces of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was never meant to discover whole new worlds; that job was left for the just-completed Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Rather, Webb's job has always been to bring ...

Spread the loveThe cosmos, it turns out, still holds plenty of secrets, even in the most familiar cosmic neighborhoods. Just ...

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The gas giant, called Beta Pictoris d, had been hiding in plain sight for more than a decade, until two independent teams ...