Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered "smoking gun" evidence of a hidden feeding supermassive ...

This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

A study suggesting the exoplanet K2-18b shows potential signs of alien life has been met with skepticism from the scientific ...

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

The political news these days is enough to make some Chicagoans wish they were a million miles away. But consider this: Even ...

"It's amazing that after 35 years, Hubble still holds a unique capability as a top workhorse for science discoveries and ...

The latest discovery marks the first-ever "compelling clue" that a black hole may be present in the enigmatic galaxy, ...

The Phantom Galaxy (M74) has been imaged in infrared and optical light using the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space ...

The telescope may well have outdone itself by revealing evidence of life on a world about 120 light years from Earth.

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to revisit a misunderstood black hole thought to be gulping ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mission to make infrared observations. This was the ...