For two decades, astronomers have wondered how supermassive black holes could exist less than a billion years after the Big ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered traces of colossal, short‑lived stars that blazed out in the universe’s first ...

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope spotted huge stars leaking nitrogen in an early galaxy, hinting that such ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has provided evidence of 'monster stars' in the early universe, explaining the existence of ...

"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...

JWST uncovers evidence of ancient “monster stars” whose extreme chemistry may explain the origins of early supermassive black ...

Cosmic dawn galaxies seen by JWST reveal hidden clues about dark matter and keep rival theories about its true nature alive.

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

A newborn star 15,000 light-years from Earth is fascinating astronomers with its dual blasts of superheated plasma jets. The ...

Look up at the sky on a clear night, and you’ll see thousands of stars – about 6,000 or so. But that’s only a tiny fraction of all the stars out there. The rest are too far away for us to see them.