"Webb was the key that made it happen." A team of astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope has found tiny dust particles traveling far from their home galaxy, surviving a perilous journey ...

Life on Earth may have begun with a little help from the stars. New research suggests that amino acids—the essential building blocks of proteins—could have hitched a ride to our young planet on grains ...

The “space dust” which helps to form the stars and planets around the cosmos is spongier than previously thought, an international team of scientists has found. Astronomers and astrochemists reviewed ...

An instrument built by the University of Colorado Boulder will soon launch on a NASA space mission where it will aim to collect interstellar dust particles hurtling through space at an average of 16 ...

"This shows how effective the approach of 'Discover with Subaru Telescope, explore with James Webb' can be." Using a powerful combination of the Subaru Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope ...

UPDATE: IMAP successfully launched around 7:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 24. On Wednesday, Sept. 24, a scientific instrument from Colorado is scheduled to launch into space from NASA’s Kennedy Space ...

In a matter of days, Comet 3I/ATLAS will reach its closest point to the Sun. The third known interstellar object will reach ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA), an international ...

ESO's Very Large Telescope has observed a rogue planet and revealed that it is eating up gas and dust from its surroundings ...

In simple terms, alchemy means transforming matter. It's a concept that was made famous by the strides some people, fictional or real, made over the centuries in their quest to transform ordinary ...