The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

The Webb Telescope may have witnessed the birth of a supermassive black hole, revealing a faster path for these cosmic giants.

The University of Texas at Austin’s Daniel T. Jaffe has been appointed as the new president of the Giant Magellan Telescope ...

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...

Astronomers may have discovered a previously unknown type of astronomical object, nicknamed “Cloud-9,” that could shed light ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

For over a decade, the NASA telescope has captured various beautiful pictures of space. These pictures show us various ...

This artist’s illustration, which shows a high-speed jet of material being launched from a source that is embedded in a very dusty galaxy, depicts GRB 250702B — the longest gamma-ray burst that ...

It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...

Recently discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS have been captured using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT). The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) ...

Astronomers and cosmologists aren’t known for being incredible at adjectives. Take the Very Large Telescope, or the European Extremely Large Telescope, or even the big bang. But they weren’t wrong ...