The discovery of a potentially habitable exoplanet by the James Webb Space Telescope sparks fresh curiosity across science ...

In brilliant new images, the James Webb Space Telescope has captured a rare glimpse at the gaseous "shrouds" that surround ...

Both cameras are far more sensitive than the standard cameras used on Earth. NIRCam and MIRI can detect the tiniest amounts ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

World’s most powerful digital camera snaps its first images, revealing the universe in stunning detail and launching a new era of discovery.

During those very early moments of the universe, things were extraordinarily hot, and quark-gluon plasma behaves in strange ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

In a major breakthrough for astronomy, scientists have captured an incredibly detailed image of a powerful jet shooting out from a distant black hole. This was made possible by connecting some of the ...

Using a combination of telescopes, astronomers have characterized the closest supernova linked to a fast X-ray transient. The ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...