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 ...

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

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

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than images from ground-based telescopes. In August of that year, Hubble made one of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured an unprecedented look inside a vibrant and glittering cluster of newborn stars ...

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, ...

The world's greatest space telescopes have all been round. Now, a new rectangular design could turbocharge our search for ...

Though NGC 7456 looks like a modest spiral galaxy, new Hubble and XMM-Newton observations reveal a bustling system with ...

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

Astronomers believe they’ve discovered another so-called quasi-moon of Earth, though it’s likely been circling undetected in near space for decades. Dubbed 2025 PN7, this mini moon is actually an ...

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