Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered "smoking gun" evidence of a hidden feeding supermassive ...

On December 25, 2021, the largest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was launched into space ...

This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

A study suggesting the exoplanet K2-18b shows potential signs of alien life has been met with skepticism from the scientific ...

"We want to understand how these galaxies are forming stars, how many stars they’re forming, and especially how the black ...

The latest discovery marks the first-ever "compelling clue" that a black hole may be present in the enigmatic galaxy, ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to revisit a misunderstood black hole thought to be gulping ...

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mission to make infrared observations. This was the ...

In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

The transits also change the starlight’s spectrum in a pattern that — if observed with instruments on a telescope as advanced as the Webb — can reveal the composition of the planet’s ...

The boundless potential of astronomical discovery contrasts sharply with the backwardness and reaction promoted by Trump and ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...