The James Webb Space Telescope is not circling our planet the way most people imagine a satellite does. Instead, NASA parked ...

Space telescopes have always been defined as much by their rockets as by their mirrors. When every kilogram to orbit costs a fortune, engineers are forced into intricate origami, exotic materials, and ...

Astronomers puzzled out minuscule distortions in images of faraway galaxies taken by JWST in order to chart the invisible ...

"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope snapped its sharpest image of the area around a black hole, solving a long-standing galactic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist's view of WASP-107b. The planet’s low density and the intense irradiation from its star allow helium to escape the planet ...

On Sunday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stuffed with cargo carried a brand new NASA telescope into space, where it was observed deploying in Sun-synchronous orbit, the agency later confirmed. Dubbed ...

"These nine objects are special." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Strange cosmic objects spotted by NASA's James Webb Space ...

At the start of the year, Earth will quietly reach a milestone in its orbit around the sun. Known as perihelion, this is the moment when our planet is closer to the sun than at any other point in the ...

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this Jupiter-mass world has a bizarre carbon-rich atmosphere filled with soot clouds and ...

An unusually massive black hole in the very early universe may be a kind of exotic, star-less black hole first theorised by Stephen Hawking. In August, Boyuan Liu at the University of Cambridge and ...