At the heart of some galaxies lie extremely bright spots—far too luminous to be lit by stars alone. Each glowing core ...

This starry view of the nearby star-forming region IC 348 is one of the largest images released to date from NASA's James ...

A new study of nine nearby galaxies has shown that actively growing supermassive black holes may contribute to, rather than ...

A new study finds that two early-universe objects thought to be faint quasars are actually extraordinarily luminous galaxies ...

Webb spots the lightest brown dwarfs ever confirmed in IC 348 - just twice Jupiter's mass - challenging what we know about star formation.

Black holes can suppress star formation, but nine nearby galaxies reveal how their outflows could also help trigger the birth of new stars.

Some vampire white dwarfs that feed on companion stars can transform into neutron stars, but like a cosmic Goldilocks, ...

New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula. The Cat's Paw Nebula is named after its resemblance to a feline footprint: ...

This starry view of the nearby star-forming region IC 348 is one of the largest images from JWST released to the public so far.

Stars and their planets form when large molecular clouds collapse in on themselves. Gravity pulls the dust and gas into a violent spiral, which flattens out into a structure known as a protoplanetary ...

The red shade shows the atomic hydrogen gas content of the galaxy, overlaid on the optical image. The atomic gas that is outside the white circle does not contribute significantly to the formation of ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical elements, which enriched the universe and allowed the next generations of ...