A phenomenon called gravitational lensing turned a galaxy into a "hall of mirrors of cosmic proportions," allowing for the discovery.

The cutting-edge observatory is charged with seeing some of the earliest visible light, and the recent image achieves a new ...

Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" ...

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 ...

Even Spitzer, NASA’s retired infrared space telescope, saw the galaxy’s outer ring as a smooth blanket. But the much more powerful Webb revealed that the Sombrero is much less uniform and ...

WELLESLEY, MASS. (WHDH) - A group of local astronomers in Wellesley have made a remarkable discovery — a new galaxy in outer space. A Wellesley College-led team of astronomers discovered the ...

Behold, the giants! The Hubble Space Telescope has completed a decade of observing Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

a satellite galaxy of our home Milky Way. It is a red supergiant, which is the largest type of star in the universe because they expand into space as they near their explosive deaths. The image ...