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

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

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

A study analyzing JWST observations of the early universe has uncovered an intriguing mystery: most galaxies appear to be ...

In a discovery that sounds straight out of science fiction, astronomers have spotted a galaxy shaped like the infinity symbol ...

The newly discovered L 98-59 f is a super-Earth, with a minimum mass 2.8 times that of our planet. It follows a nearly ...

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

Finding an exoplanet in a star’s habitable zone always generates interest. Each of these planets has a chance, even if it’s ...

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

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

Researchers studied the L 98-59 system and confirmed five rocky planets. One is in the habitable zone and may support liquid water.

The universe is expanding, but two exquisitely precise yardsticks say it’s doing so at two different speeds. That’s not a ...