The Sun generates energy through nuclear fusion, converting some 600 million tons of hydrogen into helium every second. This process began nearly 5 billion years ago, and it will continue for at least ...

NASA's powerful James Webb Space telescope has revealed a colorful spread of stars and cosmic dust in the Milky Way's most active star-forming region. The telescope was studying Sagittarius B2, a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a massive red supergiant star just before it exploded, finally solving a cosmic mystery. Hidden beneath layers of dust, the doomed star revealed itself ...

This massive star-forming cloud is working surprisingly fast. A maelstrom of star formation close to the center of our galaxy has been revealed in two different wavelengths by the James Webb Space ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured a highly detailed snapshot of the so-called Pillars of Creation, a vista of three looming towers made of interstellar dust and gas that's speckled with newly ...

A new collage from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals eight dazzling examples of gravitational lensing. Peering into deep space, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers find ...

Why it's so special: Stars in the Milky Way galaxy are born in huge molecular clouds. The most massive is Sagittarius B2, which is just a few hundred light-years from our the galaxy's central black ...