The teams behind two potential new space telescopes have embarked on their final design studies as they go head-to-head to ...

Peculiar James Webb Space Telescope observations seem to show gargantuan black holes in the earliest moments of the universe. New research may explain how they formed, thanks to primordial "seeds".

Launched without incident, but the James Webb Space Telescope still faces many challenges. In this video, we walk through the ...

Brian Greene (Cosmic String Theory) and Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel have collaborated on a National Geographic coffee-table ...

Astronomers are closer than ever to working out how the biggest galaxies in the cosmos grew so quickly before dying.

An international team of astronomers has employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a supermassive Galactic ...

The infrared-light image captured by the JWST's MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) reveals the galaxy in a totally different way ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows off its infrared capabilities once again in new imaging of the well-known ...

If we move on to larger scales, things change. Take SMACS 0723, a galaxy cluster featured at the center of JWST's first deep ...

"Maybe we didn't understand the universe as well as we thought," said astrophysicist Justus Gibson of CU Boulder.

The WEAVE telescope has documented a high-speed collision of galaxies in Stephan's Quintet, revealing the powerful shockwaves ...