These icy bodies contain organic molecules — and don’t fall into any known category of celestial object we’ve seen before.

That’s fast enough that it will be able to escape the galaxy’s gravity. It’s the first such object discovered to have the mass of a small star. Martin Kabatnik, Thomas P. Bickle and Dan ...

Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a protruding central bulge, shown in blue, where older stars reside. The ...

Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe just two billion years after the big bang ...

Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in the early ...

By looking for these absorptions, scientists can tell what a distant object is made of. In this case, two separate teams both found indications of oxygen in this galaxy when analyzing data from ...

Webb also resolves the "fuzzy" object located at the tip of the outflow into a distant spiral galaxy. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, NASA-JPL, SSC) NASA called the resulting image 'an ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a 'rogue' cosmic object barrelling through our galaxy without a star, and covered in clouds of iron and magnesium minerals.