There’s a new class of cosmic object in town. And it might just overturn our understanding of black holes and galaxy ...

NASA's newest space telescope, on a mission to study origins of universe, snapped incredible images of the cosmos 2 months ...

By comparing those fingerprints to 20 different molecules that they would potentially expect to observe in the atmosphere, ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope for the largest and deepest sample of galaxy groups, some of which were up to ...

The signal from the planet’s atmosphere has reached what scientists call “three-sigma” certainty, meaning there’s about a 0.3% chance the detection happened by accident. For scientists to confidently ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered Zhúlóng, the most distant known spiral galaxy, existing just ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have confirmed the existence of the first known planet closely ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed surface ice methanol — a key building block for organic compounds necessary for ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

Galaxies speckle the heavens like stars in a stunning new photo of the deep and distant universe.

"If the ultimate result of this story is that the public is more circumspect about future claims of life detection, that's ...

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...