The researchers say the jets are all slanted in the same direction, a phenomenon that could help us learn more about the fundamentals of how stars are formed. Researchers using the James Webb Space ...

Astronomers have released a new image of the Ring Nebula revealing features in the outer regions of the ring. The new observations provide a glimpse of what the sun might look like at the end of its ...

Scientists were able to pinpoint the location of the Butterfly Nebula’s central star. This had not been done before. The James Webb Space Telescope has unearthed new details at the core of the ...

The universe is a slow-changing place. While it's mostly true that the heavens and the deep-sky objects in it will look largely the same across an average human lifetime, there are dramatic examples ...

If "chaos is a ladder," then brilliant stars forming from discordant gas and dust are the ultimate example of that. The James Webb telescope has imaged one of the more dramatic stellar nurseries in ...

The Pismis 2 star cluster sits within a huge star-forming region 5,500 light-years away. It's a scene that could evoke popular fantasy stories, with sparkling stars shining above misty mountaintops, ...

Imagine looking deep into the sky and seeing a cosmic bubble shaped by forces we are only starting to understand. Astronomers studying the Africa Nebula believe it holds answers about how quickly jets ...

Scientists generated the most precise three-dimensional image of star formation zones in the Milky Way galaxy using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope. This map will reveal ...