Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

Final data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope has ruled out 30 models of the universe, sharpening the Hubble tension and ...

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Permanently shadowed craters around the moon's poles. A robotic telescope on the moon could peer deeper into the universe than the famed James Webb Telescope can and perhaps even help find life on ...

The most amazing thing revealed by the James Webb telescope is that the furthest you look back in time there were already huge, mature, and fully formed galaxies. Big Bang astronomers are now stunned ...

The Big Dipper is part of the Ursa Major constellation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The James Webb Space Telescope is setting ...

TOI-561 b is about 1.4 times the size of Earth and completes one orbit around its star in less than 11 hours, placing it in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is in outer space. That’s a big deal for NASA’s new flagship mission after years of gestation. It went from a mere concept to an in-development intricate, often delayed, ...

More than 100 years ago, astronomer George Ellery Hale brought our two Pasadena institutions together to build what was then the largest optical telescope in the world. The Mt. Wilson Observatory ...

If the James Webb Space Telescope is the most audacious space observatory mission of the 2020s — surrounded by both hype over its capabilities and controversy over its controversial namesake — then ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered what appear to be massive galaxies dating back to within 600 million years of the Big Bang, suggesting the early universe may have had a stellar fast ...