Astronomers used Webb to find the star behind supernova 2025pht, revealing how thick dust can hide massive red supergiants.

Researchers reported that this nebula is being formed by a star in the final stages of its life, burning its remaining fuel.

Webb captured the object in infrared — light wavelengths that are invisible to human eyes but can pierce through thick dust.

With the Earth moving between the moon and the sun, its giant shadow changing the moon's reflected glow from ivory to a reddish color.

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across ...

A mysterious striped signal from the Crab Pulsar may finally be explained by a delicate balance between plasma effects and gravitational lensing.

March 2, 2026 - WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service has released new Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express stamps featuring breathtaking images captured by the National Aeronautics and Space ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured PMR 1 in Vela using NIRCam and MIRI, revealing structural layers, stellar winds, and evolutionary details of a planetary nebula.

LAWRENCE — For the past two decades, scientists have wondered about a bright, distinct striped pattern seen in radio waves ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled a striking new photo of the 'Exposed Cranium' Nebula, a celestial structure that, as the nickname implies, bears a strong resemblance to a human ...

Scientists gathered in a conference earlier this year in an effort to solve the issue of satellite streaks ruining a powerful new Earth-based observatory's data.

Standing inside a dome in Citadel Mall, under a simulated sky, it’s easy to forget how remarkable that is: a city known for its past now helping shape curiosity about the future. The Charleston ...