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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it would be under an inch across. This profound density gives black holes ...

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

This pair of galaxies is currently in the process of colliding and merging into one, a process that will take around a billion years.

Astronomers have detected the hungriest black hole in the early universe with the help of Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). It has been found that the black hole ...

The discovery of the supermassive black, thought to be within 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, gives astronomers new ...

From the mysterious pillars of creation to the mesmerizing images of the deep universe, check out these 7 rare discoveries ...

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 galaxies, IC 2163 on the left and NGC 2207, are about 114 light-years away from Earth, located in the Eridanus and Canis ...

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