NASA is working hard to predict where in Earth orbit its aging Swift space telescope will be this fall, so a private ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is one of the most impressive pieces of technology ever made, but that doesn't mean it needs to draw a lot of power to function.

Astronomers weighed a black hole in a "little red dot" discovered by the James Webb telescope. They found it to be so overmassive that it may have formed before its host galaxy had a chance to develop ...

The famous Horsehead Nebula cuts a dramatic silhouette against glowing clouds and the stars of Orion's Belt in a new image by ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered a stellar bar in GN20, a massive galaxy seen just 1.5 ...

Advances in quantum technology might allow astronomers to circumvent age-old issues that limit the size of optical observatories ...

Supporters push to save Sunspot Solar Observatory as NSF moves ahead with demolition plans ...

On May 31, the lunar month culminates in a Blue Moon  — in this case, the second full moon in a calendar month. The "Blue ...

A large protocluster of galaxies that existed 12.6 billion years ago, first discovered with the Subaru Telescope, has been ...

Research conducted using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has identified a black hole that may have formed before its host ...

A decades-old mystery about Saturn has finally been solved thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. Scientists discovered that Saturn’s changing “rotation rate” was never caused by the planet ...