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

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

A new study lends support to the notion that JuMBOs (Jupiter-mass binary objects) discovered by the James Webb Space ...

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

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

After three years of helping astronomers investigate known planets beyond the solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered its first new planet.

Small primordial black holes, born in the first moments of the Universe, might have reached supermassive sizes extremely ...

The James Webb Telescope has photographed what appears to be an undiscovered planet, previously obscured by dust and ...

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

For the first time ever, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured an unprecedented image of an exoplanet outside ...

"Honestly, it's been a little devastating," Kevin Hardegree-Ullman, a scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at ...

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...