Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets : planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to discover new worlds goes ...

These are big, literally cosmic questions, and astronomers continue to struggle to nail down the answers. Different ...

Our team has now provided tentative evidence for a sulphur-rich atmosphere on a world that’s 1.5 times the size of Earth and ...

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A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

The DESI survey reveals that active black holes in small galaxies are common. The findings may help reveal how the two cosmic bodies evolve together.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...

The astronomical community is abuzz with revelations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Recent observations show that ..

The Phantom Galaxy (M74) has been imaged in infrared and optical light using the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.

Astronomers have discovered a black hole in the early universe that is consuming matter at an astonishing rate—more than 40 ...