This Webb image captured distinct star clusters in the Firefly Sparkle galaxy which formed 600 million years after the Big ...

The galaxy M87, located in the Virgo constellation, provided the first-ever photo of a black hole in 2019, when the Event Horizon Telescope captured an image of the supermassive black hole at the ...

M87 was the first black hole to be imaged, and now it's revealing details of how some elementary particles are accelerated by ...

Astronomers have long understood that the universe is expanding—in other words, the space in between cosmic objects that aren ...

Northwestern University is officially a founding partner of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), an enormous ground-based ...

An image from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) shows a striking celestial sight: the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, a gorgeous face-on galaxy that is one of the closest and brightest barred spiral galaxies ...

A newly discovered galaxy, nicknamed "Firefly Sparkle," offers an unprecedented early glimpse at a galaxy formation similar ...

NASA's discovery of massive black holes like the one in quasar 3C 273 offers new insights into galactic interactions and how ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the glorious spiral galaxy NGC 5643, which is located roughly 40 million ...

The Phantom Galaxy (M74) has been imaged in infrared and optical light using the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space ...

Many people have heard of the Keck Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope, but few realize just how many powerful ...

New observations show that newly formed planets close to a star help shepherd dust and gas to create more planets farther out ...