A planet more than 100 light years away from Earth could be "teeming with alien life" after the "strongest ever signs of ...

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, have found evidence of a fast-growing black hole in an unexpected place and ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

Previously, astronomers have observed giant planets, like Jupiter, forming in the giant discs around young stars. According ...

The telescope, which departed our home planet in December 2021, is currently orbiting the sun. While it has certainly led to some major new astronomical findings, including the discovery of an ...

Baba Vanga, from Bulgarua and the Living Nostradmus, from Brazil, have both accurately predicted major world events between ...

"It was something I’ve never seen before and I’ve looked at tens of thousands of images of galaxies over my career," he said.

The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.

Scientists say the two black holes merged after colliding at speeds near the limit allowed by Albert Einstein’s theory of ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented ...

For the first time, astronomers have successfully observed the earliest stages of planet formation around a star outside our ...