A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope by NASA gives a glimpse into a black hole within the Circinus Galaxy. The Circinus Galaxy is 13 million light-years from Earth. NASA said it’s long been ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered new evidence that sheds light on what scientists know about black holes. Launched more than four years ago, the infrared observatory, and successor to the ...

One of the earliest mysteries uncovered by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) involved what astronomers call “little red dots,” and now University of Copenhagen researchers say they finally know ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is not circling our planet the way most people imagine a satellite does. Instead, NASA parked this observatory in a carefully chosen deep space orbit that lets it study ...

JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing new insights after other telescopes looked at the event. When you purchase ...

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this Jupiter-mass world has a bizarre carbon-rich atmosphere filled with soot clouds and ...

Astronomers just discovered the oldest supernova to date. Named GRB 250314A, this ancient star exploded at a time when the universe was still finding its footing. Not long after the first galaxies lit ...

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), detecting a supernova—the explosive death of a massive star—at an ...

Fourth anniversaries aren’t often causes for celebration. But in the case of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which launched on Dec. 25, 2021, this anniversary marks an important transition.

In order for NASA to study the mysteries of the universe, the scientists there need to be able to look out into the cosmos. The Hubble Space Telescope did this for a time, giving humanity some ...