Pictured are a NASA artist's concept of a Jupiter-like rogue planet and a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope's spectroscopic survey of the nebula NGC1333 (inset).

Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a spectacular image of the Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946) shining close to the dark ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered brown dwarfs at the heart of planet-forming disks in the Orion nebula. The discovery could help reveal if these "failed stars" can have planets.

This near-infrared image of a portion of the Flame Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope highlights three low-mass objects, seen in the insets to the right.

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

The images are part of nearly 25,000 collected by Chandra over its time in space. Chandra observed the cosmic objects for up to thousands of hours, according to the photo gallery released by NASA.

Helix is a planetary nebula in the constellation Aquarius. It has been discovered in the early 1800s, and it is located roughly 650 light-years from our own planet.

Despite their name, planetary nebulae have nothing to do with planets. They were described as such by early astronomers whose telescopes showed them as glowing disc-like objects.

Planetary nebula is a misnomer that came about because of how much nebulas resembled giant, gaseous planets when looked through a telescope in the 1700s. Rather, what we see in this image is the ...