The study revealed that many black holes spin faster than expected, suggesting they formed primarily through the smooth ...

Supernovae are one of the most useful events in all of astronomy. Scientists can directly measure their power, their spin, ...

Two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 collide, forming carbon-rich dust. Webb captured 17 expanding dust shells, revealing ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered mysterious "little red dots" scattered across the early universe. Could these ...

Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

There is a lot of complicated but beautiful physics in understanding how this explosion takes place,” says Purdue University ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C ...

Space exploration also helps us understand the building blocks of the universe by studying cosmic phenomena like black holes, ...

A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data from multiple surveys to compile one of the largest ...

Ashley Zelinskie's VR artwork Twin Quasar was inspired by the iconic deep-space image from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, these massive objects are upending astronomers’ timeline for how early ...