T he Gemini North Telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, studies the skies above Maunakea, a mountain ...

A powerful and mysterious blast of radio waves that astronomers believed was a fast radio burst (FRB) from far beyond the ...

Astronomers discovered that C/2014 UN271, a massive comet more than 10 times larger than any known comet, is emitting jets of ...

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...

Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense ...

The debut images from a powerful telescope at Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory show distant galaxies and star-forming regions ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made history by discovering its first exoplanet, named TWA 7b. This small, distant ...

The discovery of exoplanet TWA 7b marks a first for the James Webb Space Telescope, which until now had primarily been used ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, astronomers said Wednesday, capturing rare direct images ...