Using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera, scientists have captured the gigantic jet blasting out of M87* in a ...

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Scientists figured out that the universe is billions of years old — after years of reading ancient rocks and dying stars, and ...

The W.A. Gayle Planetarium, 1010 Forest Ave., Montgomery, is open to the general public for screenings on Saturdays. After ...

While Saturn 's magnificent rings, spanning 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometres), are a familiar celestial marvel, scientists ...

Machine learning and advanced optics helped scientists correct distortions in Webb’s images, unlocking new potential to ...

Astronomers have yet to find irrefutable proof for any natural satellites of exoplanets—so-called exomoons—but as ...

The extraordinary James Webb Space Telescope had a major problem before two young scientists unlocked its full potential.

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our Sun," according to NASA/ESA. Credit: NASA, ESA, P. McGill (Univ. of ...

Astronomer using Hubble discovers "young stars that are spiraling into the center of a massive cluster of stars in the Small ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories suggests a supervolcanic exomoon may lurk around the giant ...