A cosmic coincidence has led to one of the most amazing images ever captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The dramatic outflow from a newborn star, known as Herbig-Haro 49/50 (HH ...

17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet ... Combination of Cosmic ...

Space.com spoke to three scientists, cosmic detectives who are hot on the trail of dark matter candidates using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The question is how, even with its incredibly ...

March 25, 2025 • In deference to President Trump's anti-DEI order, the space agency has removed a promise to send the "the first woman, first person of color" to walk on the moon aboard the ...

Before there was light, there was cosmic inflation ... a trillionth of a trillionth of a billionth of a second, a chunk of space the size of an atom would have exploded into a size far larger ...

NASA said in a statement it was “a lucky alignment” of the two unrelated objects. NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope captured the same shot in 2006, with scientists then dubbing the stellar jet ...

But its legacy lives on. By Katrina Miller The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier telescopes or spacecraft.

The "cosmic pinwheel" that astronomers feared could ... plumes of gas emanating from both stars collide in the vast space between them, becoming entangled and creating a spiral stream of hot ...

The primary goal of the mission is to probe the theory of “cosmic inflation.” The gist of the theory is that, back in the day — well, literally at the beginning of time and space ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a 'rogue' cosmic object barrelling through our galaxy without a star, and covered in clouds of iron and magnesium minerals.