The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just observed the oldest dead galaxy, that is, one in which the birth of new stars has ...

The potential discovery of life elsewhere is down to the unprecedented sensitivity of Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope.

Dark matter is hypothesized to outweigh "ordinary matter" in the universe by a factor of five. That means all the stuff we ...

"We've always known that we need something to complete the puzzle, but we haven't really known what shape or form those ...

Lingering Brightness Provides Evidence for How the Planet Met Its Demise Each year, scientists from around the world compete ...

Near a planet far, far away astronomers have found traces of chemicals that on Earth are only produced by living beings.

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

Though visually dynamic, it shows minimal star formation and hosts a massive but dormant black hole. The galaxy's unique hybrid structure—featuring traits of both spiral and elliptical ...

The star is located in our Milky Way galaxy about 12,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Aquila.