The Wichita Police Department confirmed an arrest in connection with a shooting reported Halloween night (last Thursday) at ...

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured 19 spiral galaxies "face-on" in near- and mid-infrared. The images "show stars, gas, and dust on the smallest scales ever observed beyond our own galaxy," ...

Astronomers have spotted a black hole that's gobbling up matter at a seemingly impossible rate, surpassing previous limits.

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

Research indicates that the James Webb Space Telescope could help confirm the presence of life-supporting atmospheres on exoplanets in the "Goldilocks zone," enhancing the likelihood of discovering ...

From its halo-like orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is seeing farther than human eyes ...

Astronomers have discovered a black hole in the early universe that is consuming matter at an astonishing rate—more than 40 ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have observed a massive disk surrounding the star Vega in unprecedented new ...

Understanding how these black holes managed to grow so rapidly in the early universe has posed significant challenges.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a feeding black hole in the early universe that seems to be ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...