Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some ...

The universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous—and highly ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

ESO estimates the complex will leak as much light pollution as a city with a population of about 20,000. Parts of the ...

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

In the modern universe, supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies and their host galaxies grow together. But this ...

Over 40 stars in a galaxy billions of light-years away were photographed, offering a glimpse into an era when the universe was only half as old as it is now. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Tel ...

(The universe is about 13. ... If the researchers are correct, the light you're seeing from the red objects below is generated by the black holes at the center of these early galaxies.

To make the historic discovery, the team of researchers turned to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and its high-resolution ...