The James Webb Space Telescope does not circle Earth like most satellites. Instead, it operates from a distant point in space ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is not circling our planet the way most people imagine a satellite does. Instead, NASA parked ...

The Circinus galaxy, a galaxy about 13 million light-years away, contains an active supermassive black hole that continues to ...

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), detecting a supernova—the explosive death of a massive star—at an ...

Everything about the Infinity galaxy is unusual. It looks very strange and it has a supermassive black hole pulling a lot of ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...

The University of Texas at Austin's Daniel T. Jaffe has been appointed as the new president of the Giant Magellan Telescope ...

The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about ...

Astronomer Daniel Jaffe has been appointed the next president of the Giant Magellan Telescope Corporation – the international consortium building the $2.5bn Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). He succeeds ...

Astronomers tracking a nearby star system thought they had spotted an exoplanet reflecting light from its star. Then it vanished. Even stranger, another bright object appeared nearby. After studying ...

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

Cloud-9 entered the picture in 2023, when astronomers using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in ...