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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

On July 11, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope finished its commissioning and commenced science operations. In the three ...

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 ...

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

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