"This is a crucial step towards characterizing giant planets beyond our solar system." ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope captured amazing imagery of the Chameleon I dark molecular cloud. It harbors the "deepest, coldest ices measured to date in a molecular cloud," according to ESA. Credit: ...

Woven through the universe are forces, often unseen, that dictate its grand design. For example, at the very heart of nearly ...

The telescope primarily detects light in the infrared in order to observe sources such as the first galaxies and protostars.

"We found an unexpected chemical complexity, with abundances far higher than predicted by current theoretical models." ...

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will provide insights far more precisely than ground telescopes can manage now, as the rock is too far away for most Earth-based instruments.

Observations of a distant quasar reveal that supermassive black holes may suppress star formation across intergalactic distances.

If a pair of black holes coalesce into one, much of that vast energy can be released in a few seconds.

Previous Spitzer studies have indicated the formation of complex molecules in the Helix Nebula.

Astronomers have found growing evidence that runaway black holes are hurtling through galaxies at extreme speeds, leaving ...