Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have taken a detailed look at the supermassive black hole at the heart of ...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
The Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, is an unstoppable cosmic firework show, flaring with wild bursts of energy that seem to have no pattern. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, ...
In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...
The Euclid space mission of the European Space Agency has spotted an Einstein ring in the galaxy NGC 6505, just 590 million ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This photo provided by the European Space Agency shows a ring of ...
Like its mythological namesake, the Phoenix Cluster burns with blisteringly hot gas, which cools to birth stars. The James ...
One such galaxy is an irregular dwarf galaxy called ... Although first discovered in 2013, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed that Leo P is unexpectedly forming ...
A rare ring of light surrounding a galaxy nearly 590 million light-years away from Earth has been discovered by a space ...
Hubble’s high-resolution imagery allowed researchers to hone in on more of the Bullseye galaxy’s rings — and helped confirm ...