New data from the James Webb telescope reveals that Pluto's strange atmospheric haze controls its climate, surprising ...

Astronomers found a possible planet around Alpha Centauri A. The James Webb Space Telescope spotted the gas giant. It is ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope got an up-close look at a headline-grabbing object known as 3I/ATLAS that has wandered into ...

Like the old Copernican revolution, new technologies including AI tools, quantum modeling and powerful observatories such as the James Webb Space Telescope are probing deeper into the universe to ...

A 13.3 billion-year-old black hole—the most distant ever discovered—has been observed by an international team of astronomers, providing new insights into the early universe.

Astronomers found strong evidence that a gassy Jupiter-size world is orbiting Alpha Centauri A, one of three stars in the ...

Astronomers have just confirmed the most distant black hole ever found—so far away in both time and space that it offers a ...

Astronomers have found one of the heaviest black holes ever measured, sitting in the heart of a distant galaxy and coming in well above what scientists would normally expect for a galaxy of its size.

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star in the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our solar system from another ...

The latest observations of 3I/ATLAS suggest it resembles comets from the outer reaches of our solar system, but may be ...

A formation known as the "Dumbbell Nebula" – nicknamed because it looks like a dumbbell – should be easy to spot throughout ...