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

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 ...

The political news these days is enough to make some Chicagoans wish they were a million miles away. But consider this: Even ...

"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, ...

The telescope may well have outdone itself by revealing evidence of life on a world about 120 light years from Earth.

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

Scientists say it's the earliest galaxy seen doing this (so far). Astronomers have caught an immensely ancient galaxy ...

Does alien life exist on an exoplanet? On TikTok, a University of Oxford astrophysicist cast doubt that extraterrestrial life ...

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