Astronomers analyzing data from an array of telescopes — including the W. M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big ...

Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations.

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An international team of astronomers has, for the first time, successfully probed the early universe. An international group of astronomers has reached a new milestone in studying the early universe.

James Webb telescope data confirms the first known runaway supermassive black hole, revealing how it escaped its host galaxy, how scientists tracked it and what its discovery means for galaxy ...

Animation of the findings by researchers who used time-delay cosmography to independently confirm that the universe’s current ...

A supermassive black hole that’s 10 million times the mass of the Sun is hurtling through space, leaving a trail of gas ...

Prof. An Tao from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a novel ...

A black hole the mass of at least ten million suns is tearing through space, fast enough to escape its home galaxy. As it ...

While online conspiracies swirl, comet 3I/ATLAS made a close pass by Earth on Dec. 19, giving astronomers a rare glimpse of a ...

Cicero Lu, a science fellow at Gemini Observatory, found a cloud of warm carbon monoxide gas circling the star HD 131488.

From an interstellar comet to breathtaking auroras and from brand-new rockets to iconic space telescopes, here are some of our favorite images from the cosmos in 2025 ...