Captured just days after its discovery, the images offer the clearest view yet of this rare visitor from beyond our solar system.

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

The space-based observatory has revolutionized the way we see space, and it can now add another remarkable accomplishment to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, astronomers said Wednesday, capturing rare direct images ...

The discovery of exoplanet TWA 7b marks a first for the James Webb Space Telescope, which until now had primarily been used ...

An image of the Sculptor Galaxy created using images from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Credit: ESO / E. Congiu et al. It’s not every day we get to see a visual of ...

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the ...

European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...

Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), they observed this nearby galaxy in thousands of colours simultaneously. By capturing vast amounts of data at every single ...