Mysterious little red dots threatened to overhaul modern cosmology—but new research may have solved the celestial conundrum.
Astronomers warn that proposed changes to the space observatory's operational budget could decrease the amount of groundbreaking data gathered by the mission.
Astronomers have never detected mid-infrared flares from our galaxy's supermassive black hole—until now.
A star system 5,000 light-years from Earth, surrounded by layers of dust, could help scientists better understand the final stages of stellar life.
The cutting-edge observatory is charged with seeing some of the earliest visible light, and the recent image achieves a new milestone in stellar astronomy.
New images from Webb Space Telescope reveal massive, ancient spiral galaxies.
Perplexing data in the early 2000s raised questions about how planetary formation began in the universe, and new data from Webb provides some answers.
A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.
The two galaxies are inching closer together before they merge, a process that will take millions of years.