University of Arizona astronomers are discovering unexpected information about one of the brightest stars in the Milky Way.

Uranus is unique as it rotates on its side, at roughly a 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit. The planet takes 84 years to orbit the Sun. An animated GIF showing Uranus' magnetic field. The ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy NGC 7469, which is 90,000 light-years in diameter. The ...

For the study, the researchers used NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope to observe some of the earliest galaxies that ...

Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

Data from Chandra X-ray telescope and James Webb Space Telescopes have revealed a black hole from 470 million years after the ...

A group of astronomers analyzing data from the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) say some of the oldest galaxies in our ...

The Roman Telescope is being built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where the coronagraph recently arrived after being ...

JWST data challenges theory that dark matter aided early galaxy formation, as bright signals found instead of expected dim ...

Dark matter is an essential element of galaxy formation and physics, according to the standard theory of how the universe ...