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 ...

On 2 July 2025, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope observed a gamma-ray burst (GRB 250702B) of a record seven hours in ...

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

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...