The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

A black hole is a terrifying concept, but the mysterious nexus of physics and space-time ... allowed astronomers to once again aim their tools like the XMM-Newton X-ray space telescope and NASA ...

An international team led by NSF NOIRLab astronomer Christina Williams has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy known to ...

The team used more than a decade’s worth of observations of Uranus’ unique aurorae taken with Hubble and refined the planet’s rotation period. This technique revealed that it completes a rotation 28 ...

Amid harsh cuts, the Trump administration has proposed canceling the nearly ready-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy—the earliest cosmic time ... old baby pictures of a now middle-aged cosmos. The research, by the Atacama Cosmology ...

(THE CONVERSATION) A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had found evidence for an unexpected atmospheric gas. On Earth, ...

Astronomers discovered it using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The size and shape surprised experts worldwide.

A new study by astronomers about distance planet K2-18b has led to what they’re calling one of the most promising sign of extraterrestrial life in the universe.

In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding?

Astronomers have found more ORCs in the years since those initial discoveries, and some of them also appear to have a galaxy ...