Astronomers have discovered TIDYE-1b, the youngest known transiting planet, estimated to be a mere three million years old.

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over how the supermassive black holes residing in the center of galaxies form. Now, ...

For a long time, astronomers believed galaxy formation followed a very specific model: cosmic gas collects in clumps, stars ...

The Epoch of Reionization — the universe’s last major transition — may have happened earlier than previously thought.

Astronomers have just discovered a new planet, and yes, it’s one more name to add to those already tricky lists of planets.

As darkness falls, Jupiter, nearing its biggest and brightest for 2024 rises north of due east and remains on display ...

The Friday before this one, I had a fantastic opportunity to serve as resident astronomer for the evening at Leonardo’s ...

A series of "red monsters" discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are complicating our accepted ideas about the ...

Researchers using XMM-Newton and Chandra telescopes have linked X-ray emissions from 21 distant quasars to rapid supermassive ...

The largest magnetic fields in the universe may have found themselves charged up when the first stars began to shine, ...

Researchers have discovered three ultra-massive galaxies from the universe's first billion years, challenging existing models of star formation. These galaxies, identified with the James Webb Space ...