The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

The atmosphere, a thin veil of molecules enveloping Earth, reaches about 20 miles (32 kilometers) above the planet's surface.

However, there is still a great deal we don't know about the universe ... galaxies alone as rogue worlds due to gravitational interactions with passing stars, or even with other planets in their ...

According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent ...

Learn about the size, temperature, and colour of each planet, and discover why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

The team believe these early quasars like J1429+5447 provided the energy to end the Dark Ages and herald in the Reionisation ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 ...

But in some ways, yes. Look, it's complicated. Our universe is unimaginably vast and contains somewhere around 2 trillion galaxies. These galaxies aren't scattered around randomly, but are ...

We looked for light emitted from one galaxy that showed signs of harboring a binary supermassive black hole system. Galaxies like the Milky Way are nearly as old as the universe. Sometimes ...