Smithsonian curator Carolyn Russo’s new book The Ascent of Rauschenberg explores the artist's fascination with flight ...

A mysterious striped signal from the Crab Pulsar may finally be explained by a delicate balance between plasma effects and gravitational lensing.

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The James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning spiral galaxy 65 million light-years away, revealing glowing dust clouds and stellar nurseries.

In North Carolina, former Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley will face former Gov. Roy Cooper in November for an open Senate seat, NBC News projects.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the most distant “jellyfish galaxy” ever seen — a cosmic oddity streaming long, tentacle-like trails of gas and newborn stars as it speeds ...

Astronomers used Webb to find the star behind supernova 2025pht, revealing how thick dust can hide massive red supergiants.

NASA's groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope has given us an astonishingly detailed peek inside the layers of Uranus' ...

Webb captured the object in infrared — light wavelengths that are invisible to human eyes but can pierce through thick dust.

New analysis suggests Webb’s little red dots are young black holes hidden in thick gas, with masses far smaller than first thought.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a new image of what is known as the "Exposed Cranium" nebula, a cloud of gas ...