A merger of galaxies and their supermassive black holes in the ZS7 system was spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope. The ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of interacting galaxies Arp 142. Arp 142 consists of a distorted ...

Earendel, which astronomers believed to be the most distant star ever observed, may be something else according to new ...

SwRI scientists reviewed spectral data of sample material taken from near-Earth asteroids Ryugu and Bennu (pictured above) and compared them with spectral data of main belt asteroid Polana from the ...

Of course, these advances have cost money, and we must always ask how best to balance the long-term benefits of science against our country’s other urgent needs. In 2024, the total science budget, ...

NASA's Hubble observatory made the discovery in 2022, making it the farthest and earliest star ever seen. Astronomers named ...

The potential for life beyond Earth has been a tantalizing dream for scientists and the public alike, but recent findings regarding the exoplanet K2-18b should prompt caution against jumping to ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to investigate whether the most distant star identified in the universe is, ...

Thought to be some kind of galaxy, the Little Red Dots were spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope and have stumped ...

“These mysterious objects are candidate galaxies in the early universe, meaning they could be very early galaxies,” said ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...