Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant ...

Mysterious “little red dots” spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope may not hide black holes after all. Scientists now ...

A new study suggests that "little red dots" spied by the James Webb telescope could be the universe's short-lived first ...

Data from Chandra X-ray telescope and James Webb Space Telescopes have revealed a black hole from 470 million years after the Big Bang. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals new clues about a mysterious cosmic explosion that defies expectations. Researchers are investigating an unusual event in deep space that has left scientists ...

Astronomers have found that both the core of our Milky Way and the earliest proto-galaxies in the universe share a surprising ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed a supermassive black hole in galaxy CANUCS-LRD-z8.6, part of galaxy cluster MACS ...

Deep inside a dust-choked galaxy, astronomers have uncovered a chemical environment far more complex than expected.

When astronomers glimpsed the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in July 2022, they saw the kind of universe most of them have come to expect. There were dazzling blue bursts of ...

Despite significant scientific advancement over the last decades, the universe still finds new ways to surprise us. Every ...

Astronomers have spotted what may be one of the universe’s earliest barred spiral galaxies — a striking cosmic structure forming just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. The galaxy, COSMOS-74706, ...

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...