Dark comets have been moving through our Solar System for billions of years. And somehow, until recently, we had no idea. How ...

NASA announced Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is set to leave the agency on Aug. 1.

Webb has been orbiting more than a million miles from Earth, capturing breathtaking images of deep space. But how does it ...

Captured in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope, the peculiar star system Apep consists of two dying stars ...

Astronomers have used NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to uncover black holes secretly devouring stars in ...

In a discovery that sounds straight out of science fiction, astronomers have spotted a galaxy shaped like the infinity symbol ...

The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for ...

A fifth planet has been detected within the habitable zone of a neighboring star, where conditions could perhaps support ...

Images from two different telescopes give astronomers a glimpse at the formation of a "new" planetary system around a star ...

The universe is expanding, but two exquisitely precise yardsticks say it’s doing so at two different speeds. That’s not a ...

For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope has observed several tidal disruption events — when a black hole draws in ...