This spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows a star cocooned within a massive disk of gas and dust. It's a protoplanetary disk — a ring of dense gas and dust surrounding ...

'This challenges current models of disk chemistry and evolution' Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a strange disk of gas and dust around an infant star that ...

NASA's $10 billion space telescope studied the third interstellar object to enter the solar system, measuring the chemical contents of its halo. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has observed the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Main: An illustration of a protoplanetary disk around an infant star. Inset: image of the ...

Take a tour of the amazing Ring Nebula image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/Institute for Earth and Space Exploration/JWST Ring Nebula Imaging Project FBI warns of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A composite image of the star-forming region NGC 6357. New research shows a young star in NGC ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) captured imagery of a pair of stars called Wolf-Rayet 140. "Shells of cosmic dust created by the interaction of binary stars appear like ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a planet-forming disk shockingly rich in carbon dioxide but nearly devoid of water, upending traditional theories of planetary chemistry ...

Astronomers at the University of Missouri, using the James Webb Space Telescope, have uncovered 300 unusually bright cosmic objects that may be some of the earliest galaxies ever formed. By applying ...

The mysterious objects might be early galaxies that could alter the understanding of the early universe. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists make discoveries that could alter ...

Telescopes like the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the James Webb Space Telescope have given astronomers unprecedented access to the cosmos, but even these advanced imaging systems come with ...

The Earth supports the only known life in the universe, all of it depending heavily on the presence of liquid water to facilitate chemical reactions. While single-celled life has existed almost as ...