As another world around TRAPPIST-1 shows no signs of an atmosphere, astronomers urge us not to give up hope for an Earth-like ...

This telescope has revealed the whipped-up dust from the birth of a star—and a shining background galaxy—more clearly than ...

When global events set our minds to wondering if humanity has what it takes to persist, it's natural to wonder about other worlds, other life, other intelligent species, and if those others might be ...

What if the universe’s most mysterious monsters aren’t born in darkness, but in the bright turbulence of colliding galaxies?

The newly confirmed supermassive black hole at the heart of CAPERS-LRD-z9 is known as an active galactic nucleus (AGN), the ...

It would orbit within Alpha Centauri A’s habitable zone, the starlight-bathed region where liquid water can persist on a ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected strong evidence for a giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest ...

An impossibly bright galaxy is forcing scientists to rewrite the rules of the Big Bang’s aftermath. Here’s what you’ll learn ...

In some of its most ambitious work yet, the James Webb Space Telescope looked to spot a planet in a potentially habitable ...

Astronomers searching for some of the universe’s first galaxies have uncovered a surprising case of mistaken identity.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found strong evidence for a new exoplanet — one orbiting Alpha ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed a distant faint galaxy ...