Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer through the ...

Black holes played a critical role in the formation of the early universe. However, astronomers have been debating for a long ...

Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant until a star passes by.

"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We ...

When the JWST began science observations in July 2022, it flung open a whole new window on the universe. The JWST looked ...

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

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are painting a new picture of Jupiter's moon Europa and revealing ...

WASP-121b is unlike anything in our Solar System. This giant planet orbits its star so closely that it completes a full orbit ...

The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured evidence of it.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of an exoplanet for the first time since it began science operations in July of 2022. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters ...

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

JWST's new detections are the most precise of their kind, but they don't clear up a baffling puzzle about the cosmos.