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

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope's ancient "little red dot" galaxies have been seen as a sign of "broken cosmology." Feeding ...

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

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes because if their components warm and expand it can mean that the shape of ...

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

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

Luxury watchmakers and tattoo artists may not seem like natural collaborators, but Roger Dubuis’s four-year partnership with ...