It’s the first time a sugar molecule has been detected in interstellar space. The discovery provides tantalizing new clues into how life may have arisen on Earth.

Messier’s designations are still used today, and NASA just released new images of Messier Object 82, the Cigar Galaxy, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. This galaxy, located around 12 million light-years away,

See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years away and has also been imaged by Hubble Space Telescope, comparison shown in the video.

The James Webb Space Telescope's mid-infrared instrument shows the Centaurus A galaxy's weird glowing shapes at its core. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / A. Pagan / J. DePasquale / M. Garcia Marin The dazzling images have been released to celebrate Webb's fourth year of studying the universe.

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe CRISTAL-02 and discovered a galaxy-killing wind.

Astronomers at Durham University have made a major advance in understanding how galaxies formed and evolved in the early universe. Using powerful new observations, the team discovered the most distant example ever found of a compact,

The images shed light on the galaxy’s past and star clusters that other telescopes couldn’t in what the astronomers are calling a case of “galactic archaeology”

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has released four stunning images of cosmic wonders, depicted in red, white and blue for the America 250 anniversary on July 4.

With the advent of commercial spaceflight, an increasing number of people may be heading into space in the coming years. Some will even get a chance to fly to the moon or live on Mars. One of the major health risks associated with spaceflight involves the ...