Astronomers want to collect as much data as possible using as many systems as possible. Sometimes that requires coordination ...

Webb telescope data confirm a supermassive black hole fleeing its galaxy, carving a 200,000 light-year wake of new stars.

Gas giants are massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They lack solid surfaces, and in our solar system, Jupiter ...

Deep inside a nearby galaxy, a black hole sits behind a thick wall of dust. Almost all its light gets trapped.

Deep inside a nearby galaxy cloaked in thick clouds of gas and dust, astronomers have uncovered a surprising treasure trove ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a new dwarf galaxy, which received designation ...

JWST and ESA’s Ariel mission plan coordinated exoplanet observations starting in 2030, combining high-resolution targeting and large-scale surveys to expand atmospheric data collection.

Supermassive black holes, often considered the universe's most extreme objects, are now seen as cosmic predators that can slow star growth in galaxies millions of light-years ...

Astronomers from the University of Tokyo and other institutions have utilized the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to study ...

Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the highest surface temperatures of any normal stars, so they emit copious amounts ...

The telescope primarily detects light in the infrared in order to observe sources such as the first galaxies and protostars.

An international team of astronomers, led by Weichen Wang of the University of Milan, Italy, discovered a massive and ...