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

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

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.

Stars uncontaminated by heavier elements are thought to have formed very early in the universe, but a galaxy much later in ...

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

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

"Our experiments provide clues to better understand JWST Europa observations and serve as a prelude to upcoming close-range ...

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

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

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.