UCF researchers utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover unique characteristics of (2060) Chiron, a distant "centaur" that exhibits traits of both a comet and an asteroid. These findings ...

Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter's clouds. Instead of being formed of ammonia ice -- ...

Looking halfway across the observable universe and expecting to see individual stars is considered a non-starter in astronomy ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...

A deep field image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI | mash mix: Space.com Music: Tranquil Dawn by Amber Glow / courtesy of ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have observed a galaxy nearly 6.5 billion light-years from Earth, and ...

Unless one is a scientist or a teacher of the sciences, it would be understandable if a person may not be familiar with ...

Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the universe was half its age.

James Webb Space Telescope imagery of the Carina Nebula, Southern Ring Nebula and exoplanet WASP-96 b atmospheric data has been converted into sound by SYSTEM Sounds musicians Matt Russo and Andrew ...

Taking advantage of a cosmic "double lens," astronomers resolved more than 40 individual stars in a galaxy so far away its ...

The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.