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Dust around distant stars may reveal whether colliding worlds grazed one another or hit hard enough to vaporize rock.

Embark on an incredible flight through the cosmos to the star-forming region IC 348, as captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Witness the vibrant colors of the interstellar nebula and the ...

NASA's Webb Telescope has uncovered new evidence of planetary-scale collisions around distant stars, revealing clues to the ...

LHS 1140b helium hints at an atmosphere, but Webb observations complicate the picture. Explore what the key evidence means ...

The newly released photo depicts a galaxy cluster warping the light emitted from more distant galactic bodies, producing what ...

Using observations from Chile, astronomers have logged nearly 50 extremely faint dwarf systems — including so-called "ghost galaxies" — around three larger galaxies, adding new data to a major ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is often described as a successor to Hubble, but the two observatories occupy very different places. Hubble circles Earth a few hundred kilometers above the surface.

Squeezing a telescope with a mirror wider than a school bus and a sunshield the size of a tennis court into a rocket nose cone barely five meters across sounds like an engineering contradiction. NASA ...

Jacob Webb took a comebacker to the forearm in the ninth inning of the Cubs' 9-5 loss to the Brewers. Michael Reaves / Getty Images CHICAGO — Chicago Cubs right-handed reliever Jacob Webb left ...

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Bright planets in the solar system and nearby stars are the James Webb Space Telescope's Achilles' heel, but new software will improve images. Credit: Jedidiah Dore / NASA When Nobel Laureate John C.