One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...

A new study lends support to the notion that JuMBOs (Jupiter-mass binary objects) discovered by the James Webb Space ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Small primordial black holes, born in the first moments of the Universe, might have reached supermassive sizes extremely ...

After three years of helping astronomers investigate known planets beyond the solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered its first new planet.

Compact ruddy galaxies seen by the James Webb telescope confound astronomers. Having very little spin at birth may explain the galaxies’ small sizes.

For the first time ever, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured an unprecedented image of an exoplanet outside ...

"Honestly, it's been a little devastating," Kevin Hardegree-Ullman, a scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at ...

Everything in space—from Earth and the sun to black holes—accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe. The rest of ...

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...