Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...

Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light ...

Ever since NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was launched, it’s been revealing more about the universe than even most ...

The instrument is the Prime Focus Spectrograph, and it is one of the flagship instruments in the next era of the Subaru ...

Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.

The James Webb Space Telescope has provided groundbreaking insights into a new type of exoplanet, fundamentally different ...

But researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian space ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

These massive currents carry material on a journey through and around star-forming galaxies before they settle and form stars ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope and advanced computer models have classified a type of planet unlike any in our ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar ...