He recently added a new mystery to the list: Is China quietly building the world’s biggest telescope? He would like to know, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's look at the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. The image showcase a "small star-forming region" ...

The study, which was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society earlier this year, claims that our universe may exist inside a black hole.

Dark comets have been moving through our Solar System for billions of years. And somehow, until recently, we had no idea. How ...

NASA announced Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is set to leave the agency on Aug. 1.

Webb has been orbiting more than a million miles from Earth, capturing breathtaking images of deep space. But how does it ...

Captured in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope, the peculiar star system Apep consists of two dying stars ...

Astronomers have used NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to uncover black holes secretly devouring stars in ...

Stars uncontaminated by heavier elements are thought to have formed very early in the universe, but a galaxy much later in ...

This cosmic twist was uncovered by a team led by Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum, who dubbed the galaxy “Infinity.” Formed ...

The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for ...

A fifth planet has been detected within the habitable zone of a neighboring star, where conditions could perhaps support ...