About 880 light-years from Earth, a hot mess of an exoplanet is slowly spilling its atmosphere into space, creating two ...

Intermediate mass black holes (IMBH), if they exist, have between about 100 and 1,000 solar masses, placing them in between ...

Supernovae aren't one of the JWST's main science themes, but the perceptive telescope is full of surprises. Recently, it ...

Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet.

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

The supernova exploded over 13 billion years ago in a galaxy far, far away.

The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose an entirely new type of cosmic structure: black hole stars. These exotic ...

Searching for exomoons—moons that orbit around another planet—was one of the most exciting capabilities expected of the James ...

James Webb Space Telescope confirms the first runaway supermassive black hole in the Cosmic Owl galaxy, observing its tail and bow shock, providing direct evidence of black hole ejection during galaxy ...