One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...

A new study lends support to the notion that JuMBOs (Jupiter-mass binary objects) discovered by the James Webb Space ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's ancient "little red dot" galaxies have been seen as a sign of "broken cosmology." Feeding ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes because if their components warm and expand it can mean that the shape of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

Compact ruddy galaxies seen by the James Webb telescope confound astronomers. Having very little spin at birth may explain the galaxies’ small sizes.

Luxury watchmakers and tattoo artists may not seem like natural collaborators, but Roger Dubuis’s four-year partnership with ...

New simulations reproduce high-redshift galaxies seen by JWST and propose a radical cosmological shift beyond ΛCDM. To simulate the universe with ...

IN A NUTSHELL: 🔭 Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a pattern in the rotational direction of 263 ancient galaxies.; 🌀 Approximately 60% of these galaxies rotate clockwise, ...

"Honestly, it's been a little devastating," Kevin Hardegree-Ullman, a scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at ...