Webb has been orbiting more than a million miles from Earth, capturing breathtaking images of deep space. But how does it ...

Captured in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope, the peculiar star system Apep consists of two dying stars ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are painting a new picture of Jupiter's moon Europa and revealing ...

The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for ...

The study, which was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society earlier this year, claims that our universe may exist inside a black hole.

However, these “dormant” singularities will occasionally come into contact with stars and other objects as they move around the galaxy. If they come too close, these objects are gobbled up by the ...

Espinoza is a leader in the new massive James Webb Space Telescope study of rocky worlds, specifically to find out if planets around red dwarfs could have air. The campaign, first reported by Mashable ...

The universe is expanding, but two exquisitely precise yardsticks say it’s doing so at two different speeds. That’s not a ...

For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope has observed several tidal disruption events — when a black hole draws in ...

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the initial stages of a solar system's formation around a distant star, HOPS-315.

Astronomer Robert Kirshner investigates some of the universe’s biggest questions: What happens when a star explodes? Is the ...

A fifth planet has been detected within the habitable zone of a neighboring star, where conditions could perhaps support ...