It was put on Webb to diagnose and measure any blur in its images. Even nanometres of distortion in Webb’s 18 hexagonal ...

Recently discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS have been captured using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large ...

Researchers have identified a massive red supergiant on the brink of supernova in images from the James Webb Space Telescope, ...

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

Scientists have blown stargazers’ collective minds after discovering a massive dark object in space that’s completely ...

Astronomers spot a red supergiant star hidden in dust just before it exploded, solving a long-standing mystery about missing supernovae.

Elliptical galaxies instead tend to be older, more massive, and with stars distributed not in a nice little disk, but in a spherical distribution. Elliptical galaxies, being the product of galactic ...

Earth’s turbulent atmosphere makes it hard to detect new planets from the ground. Astronomer Rebecca Jensen-Clem is working ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

NASA recently launched a telescope designed and built by UMass Lowell and the space agency that seeks to identify planets ...

Evolving dark matter may explain cosmic acceleration. Observations support a mixed model. For years, a stubborn puzzle has sat at the center of the standard cosmological model. The evidence clearly ...

Astronomers detected a bright signal, coming from deep inside a dust disc, that is likely newborn planet HD 135344B still ...