JWST reveals how a supermassive black hole keeps feeding itself
Supermassive black holes can heat the gas around them so fiercely that their own food supply should disappear.…
The James Webb Space Telescope reveals a striking image of Centaurus A
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing a galaxy. NASA has recently unveiled an image taken by the…
JWST reveals why some distant galaxies suddenly stop forming stars
Distant galaxies that abruptly stopped making stars have puzzled astronomers for years. About 9 billion years ago, during…
James Webb Uncovers the Atmosphere of a Hellish Lava World 41 Light-Years Away
Artist’s illustration of lava exoplanet CoRoT-7 b. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada JWST data suggest 55 Cancri e may be…
Hubble has spotted ‘impossible’ light in deep space, and scientists are trying to explain where it came from
Astronomers have detected light from a tiny but powerful galaxy that existed when the universe was still emerging…
It’s one of the biggest mysteries of the cosmos: What are these little red dots?
To figure out what the little red dots might be, if not simply really big galaxies, scientists turned…
12 billion years old interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be older than the solar system
3I/ATLAS arrived fast, bright, and strange. When astronomers spotted it on July 1, 2025, they knew almost immediately…
NASA’s James Webb Discovers Bizarre Salt Clouds on the Pink Planet
This artistic illustration shows the Pink Planet, or GJ 504 b, orbiting its host star. Astronomers think the…
James Webb Space Telescope Spots Six Galaxies Merging Into One 12 Billion Years Ago
The James Webb Space Telescope has caught six massive galaxies in the act of colliding and merging into…
Hubble Catches Tiny Galaxy Clearing Cosmic Fog Just 1.4 Billion Years After the Big Bang
A small, ferociously star-forming galaxy observed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers their closest look yet…
In a New 223-Megapixel Image, NASA Captures 16.5 Million Stars of the Cigar Galaxy — Colossal
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is back with another stunner: a new 223-megapixel composite featuring about 16.5 million…
Astronomers Discover a Sleeping Giant: Ancient Black Hole 6 Billion Times the Sun’s Mass
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image of the highly distorted red galaxy MRG-M0138 seen through a foreground cluster…