But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

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 ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently spotted a rare cosmic phenomenon known as the "Cosmic Owl". This structure is ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captures the "Cosmic Owl," a rare galactic formation resembling an owl’s face. See stunning images.

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its ...

Astronomers believe they've uncovered the source behind mysterious cosmic signals known as fast x-ray transients (FXTs) — and ...

Nestled inside a planetary ring 110 light-years from Earth, a planet spotted by the James Webb telescope is the lightest exoplanet ever detected.

Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...

Last week the James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of what they believe to be a previously unknown exoplanet ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.