"We want to understand how these galaxies are forming stars, how many stars they’re forming, and especially how the black ...

Stars are the architects of nearly all the chemical elements in the universe, including ones crucial to life as we know it, such as carbon and oxygen. Yet, despite decades of research, aspects of star ...

Webb detected rare neon gas in M83. This may signal a hidden black hole, challenging the idea that the galaxy has only ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare kind of galaxy that seems to be missing one of the universe’s most important ingredients: ...

JACKSON, Tenn. — The Hubble Space Telescope has now been in Earth’s orbit for 35 years. The 24,000lb observatory went into ...

NASA held a cosmic celebration for the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s launch.The 24,000-pound observatory ...

The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside Sagittarius C, blasting out powerful jets of gas as they develop. They also ...

A striking new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals an Einstein ring in the Hydrus constellation. The phenomenon occurs when a massive foreground galaxy bends light from a hidden ...

while the more distant background galaxy appears to be wrapped around the closer galaxy, forming a ring. ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Mahler Acknowledgement: M. A. McDonald A striking new image from ...