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 (JWST) is a powerful tool for exploring space, launched in December 2021. It can see faraway ...

Located around 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. The planet's blue color comes from methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light.

James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M.

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

Vega, one of the brightest, most famous and most important stars in the night sky, has no evidence of giant planets around it ...

Black holes are extremely dense objects with gravity so strong that not even light can escape. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Black hole in ULAS J1120+0641 has record mass compared to its galaxy. Quasar's black hole is 1.4 billion solar masses, half its galaxy's mass. Astronomers used JWST to uncover details about this ...

The discovery provides valuable insights into star formation processes under conditions similar to the early universe.

For the first time, the James Webb Telescope may have identified brown dwarfs outside the Milky Way, providing new insights.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spiral galaxy under the "ram pressure" inside a massive cluster of galaxies.

Scientists believe that about 14 billion years ago, during the Big Bang, an unidentified energy made the universe expand ...