Astronomers have confirmed the most distant black hole ever found, giving us a glimpse of one of the universe’s very first ...

A team of astronomers led by UT’s Cosmic Frontiers Center found the black hole in the CAPERS-LRD-z9 galaxy with data from the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared and Mid-Infrared instruments (NIRCam & MIRI) have delivered imagery of ...

The potential exoplanet was detected using JWST’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) at a wavelength of 15 microns, part of the ...

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the ...

A merger of galaxies and their supermassive black holes in the ZS7 system was spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope. The ...

Earendel, which astronomers believed to be the most distant star ever observed, may be something else according to new ...

SwRI scientists reviewed spectral data of sample material taken from near-Earth asteroids Ryugu and Bennu (pictured above) and compared them with spectral data of main belt asteroid Polana from the ...

Of course, these advances have cost money, and we must always ask how best to balance the long-term benefits of science against our country’s other urgent needs. In 2024, the total science budget, ...

The potential for life beyond Earth has been a tantalizing dream for scientists and the public alike, but recent findings regarding the exoplanet K2-18b should prompt caution against jumping to ...

NASA's Hubble observatory made the discovery in 2022, making it the farthest and earliest star ever seen. Astronomers named ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to investigate whether the most distant star identified in the universe is, ...