The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals turbulent environments found in Sagittarius C, a core part of our Milky Way galaxy.

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

But they actually do exist in real life. Astronomers, who sometimes like to kill fun, call these worlds free-floating planets ... light of a background star in a measurable way.