The mystery of the James Webb Space Telescope's "little red dots" could be solved if they are not ancient galaxies but are ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured infant stars carving peaks of dust and gas in the Pismis 24 star cluster.

When the "little red dots" were first discovered in 2022, scientists thought the objects might be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way, which is about 13.6 billion years old. That's because galaxies ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have investigated a "failed star," or brown dwarf, nicknamed "The ...

Webb telescope captures a young giant star firing off an 8-light-year gas jet, and revealing how massive stars form.

A massive star on the distant outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy is seen blowing a powerful cosmic blowtorch in a new image ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...

Located about 5,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius, lies a small open star cluster known as Pismis 24.

S284p1 sits at the edge of the Milky Way about 15,000 light-years from Earth. As superheated gas falls onto the star, it gets redirected as narrow beams, confined by powerful magnetic fields. The jets ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a new view of a planet-forming disk within the Taurus star-forming region.

Finding another Earth is the holy grail of modern astronomy. NASA’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is ...

Astronomers theorise that they are early galaxies that existed earlier than 700 million years after the Big Bang.