When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a young red star in the constellation Columba, they noticed ...

The Canadian-built Atacama Cosmology Telescope in the high Chilean desert mountains, which has just given up its final batch ...

The new images—of when the cosmos was a mere 380,000 years old—show the "first steps towards making the earliest stars and ...

Connecticut College removed its 29-year-old 20-inch telescope out of the observatory atop the F.W. Olin Science Center to ...

The consortium of the European space telescope Euclid has published its first data set. It includes many newly discovered but ...

If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its 380,000th birthday represent a snapshot of the universe as a newborn.

The research, by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration, shows both the intensity and polarization of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key ... The HR 8799 system, 130 light years from Earth, is only 30 million years old — just a baby compared to our solar system's 4.6 ...

Published as a cover story in Science on Friday, this cosmic atlas solves a decade-old challenge in astronomy by revealing ...

Matteo Paz built a machine-learning algorithm in high school to analyze heaps of data for NASA. He just won a $250,000 ...

New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images show the first carbon dioxide-containing planet discovered outside of Earth’s ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...