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Results shared Jan. 9 at the "Super Bowl of astronomy" highlight how the James Webb Space Telescope is living up to its potential — and how much more is waiting to be unveiled.

Located around 4,000 light years away the massive "oddball" star MWC 349A is ejecting a jet of material at mind-boggling speeds of over a million miles per hour.

A tremendous shockwave several times the size of the Milky Way, launched by a "galactic intruder" forcing its way into the collection of galaxies has kickstarted several mysterious processes.

The asteroid Phaethon's rotational period is decreasing, which is rare for space rocks.

Scientists have uncovered a new mystery about Uranus' rings buried deep in data from NASA's iconic Voyager 2 mission.

Strange, dark-veined meteorites rained down on Earth when a fireball exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in February 2013.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft still has five years of trekking through space before it sees its first Trojan asteroid, but mission scientists are already getting a sense of what these rocks look like.

The blobs are irregular groups of young blue stars thought to have formed in a galactic collision that scientists liken to a belly flop.

Four retired telescope missions are helping astronomers uncover new insights about how dust behaves in galaxies.

Astronomers are watching a red hypergiant star's final era to better understand what happens at the end of a stellar life cycle.

Thousands of distant galaxies in different shapes and sizes glow in infrared light in a newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Astronomers have traced the violent and catastrophic evolution of Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbor, by analyzing the makeup and motion of more than 500 stars within the nearby galaxy.

A planetary system with two Earthlike planets has been discovered only 33 light-years away from us.

Astronomers found a binary star system that may have formed when a wandering star fell into the gravity of its partner.

V1674 Hercules is the fastest nova ever discovered, but new research reveals strange new details about this explosive event driven by a feeding white dwarf.

Watch the sun set from a particularly dark patch of Earth and you may spot a triangle of what scientists call zodiacal light extending from where our star passed below the horizon.

Scientists have gotten a close look at an extreme case of seasons, thanks to a retired NASA telescope.

Stellar groupings orbiting the outskirts of the Milky Way shed new light on the elusive dark matter surrounding our galaxy.

A rare type of white dwarf star has been erupting in the most extreme superflares of its kind ever seen, researchers find in a new study.

Astronomers have spotted the brightest ever 'Ccow' supernova shining in x-rays providing evidence the mysterious phenomenon might be driven by an emerging black hole or a neutron star.