Astronomers have taken a rare look into the distant past of the universe and uncovered evidence that galaxies and their ...

A new class of supermassive black holes embedded in a thick gas shell could explain small red dots in images from the James ...

Scientists spotted an enormous black hole in the early universe that's growing at 2.4 times the theoretical Eddington limit. Studying it further could help answer one of the biggest questions in ...

A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of astronomers. This discovery from ...

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope may have found a new type of object: cold, glowing black hole stars from the early ...

Astronomers at Penn State have nicknamed the objects “universe breakers,” which may be unusual black hole atmospheres and could represent a missing link in the fast growth of supermassive black holes.

Finding another Earth is the holy grail of modern astronomy. NASA’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is ...

A newly discovered distant object that astronomers have dubbed “The Cliff” could solve a riddle posed by some of the first ...

Phases of ice that exist naturally only on frozen moons could be detected using infrared spectroscopy, according to new ...

The world's greatest space telescopes have all been round. Now, a new rectangular design could turbocharge our search for ...

A young star’s disk shows unexpectedly high CO₂ and little water. The result questions standard theories of planet formation.