Since its launch in late 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been glimpsing some of the earliest epochs of cosmic ...

A 13.3 billion-year-old black hole—the most distant ever discovered—has been observed by an international team of astronomers, providing new insights into the early universe.

"These are the first JWST observations of tidal disruption events, and they look nothing like what we’ve ever seen before." ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our solar system from another ...

These star-shredding black holes sit within dusty galaxies that block many telescopes’ views. That’s not an issue for JWST.

After years of follow-up study, an international research team led by the University of Texas at Austin’s Cosmic Frontier ...

An international team of astronomers led by The University of Texas at Austin's Cosmic Frontier Center has confirmed the most ...

An international team of astronomers has identified the earliest black hole ever confirmed, an ancient behemoth that existed ...

Discoveries keep pouring out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Researchers observed an unusual cluster, which they dubbed the Infinity Galaxy. It appears to support a leading theory on how ...

The newborn universe appeared to possess more giant galaxies than scientists could explain-and black holes may be the reason ...

Webb has been orbiting more than a million miles from Earth, capturing breathtaking images of deep space. But how does it ...

"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We ...