Galaxies speckle the heavens like stars in a stunning new photo of the deep and distant universe.The James Webb Space ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have peered into galaxies that existed at cosmic noon to hunt ravenously ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope captured an amazing view of the planet Uranus, its rings and moons. Webb's ...

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

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...

An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to scientists.

One of the most famous and beautiful cosmic sights shows its colors in this new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The Veil Nebula is the remnant of a massive star which exploded in a supernova 10 ...

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

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

In the summer of 1995, Robert Williams, then director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages the Hubble ...

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

Now, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers may have cracked this puzzle, finding the first evidence of a supermassive black hole at the heart of M83, also known as NGC 5236 ...