"This is a crucial step towards characterizing giant planets beyond our solar system." ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope captured massive galaxy cluster RX J2129. located about 3.2 billion light-years away. A ...

Woven through the universe are forces, often unseen, that dictate its grand design. For example, at the very heart of nearly ...

"We found an unexpected chemical complexity, with abundances far higher than predicted by current theoretical models." ...

The telescope primarily detects light in the infrared in order to observe sources such as the first galaxies and protostars.

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory have captured the clearest image yet of a galaxy cluster in the making, seen when the universe was only one billion years old.

Observations of a distant quasar reveal that supermassive black holes may suppress star formation across intergalactic distances.

JWST and ESA’s Ariel mission plan coordinated exoplanet observations starting in 2030, combining high-resolution targeting and large-scale surveys to expand atmospheric data collection.

Astronomers have found growing evidence that runaway black holes are hurtling through galaxies at extreme speeds, leaving ...

Previous Spitzer studies have indicated the formation of complex molecules in the Helix Nebula.

HOUSTON, TX -A seven-year-old girl in Lucknow stood in her backyard at dawn in October 1957, watching Sputnik streak across the sky. Nearly seven decades later, that child would help steer some of ...