Since its launch on Christmas Day, 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has proven its worth year after year. 2024 is no exception. Here are just five times the ultrapowerful telescope has reshaped ...

Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we ...

Greenwich's Royal Observatory is improving access to its buildings and creating new educational and events spaces in a £77m ...

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According to a new Physical Review Letters study, black holes could help solve the dark matter mystery. The shadowy regions in black hole images captured by the Event Horizon Telescope can act as ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has conducted observations on the Orion nebula, revealing something that has peaked the interest of astronomers. The Webb telescope pointed its extremely ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may have found the universe’s first “dark stars.” Within the first few ...

STOCKHOLM: A mathematical theory behind computer image compression, research on an “invisibility cloak,” and the science ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

The Atacama desert is a hotspot for astronomy. With its dry thin air and lack of light pollution, it's a perfect place for ...

Astronomers spot a red supergiant star hidden in dust just before it exploded, solving a long-standing mystery about missing supernovae.