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Editor’s Note: This post highlights a combination of peer-reviewed results and data from Webb science in progress, which has not…

Scientists predict one of the major surveys by NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may reveal around 100,000 celestial…

A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular clusters like this…

Since July 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to…

A funky effect Einstein predicted, known as gravitational lensing — when a foreground galaxy magnifies more distant galaxies behind it…

A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a new study from…

The James Webb Space Telescope is doing something astronomers dreamed about for decades: peering into our universe’s early past, a…

How big is space? Space is really big. Thinking about our solar system, let’s imagine you could get in a…

NASA released three new pieces of cosmic sound Thursday that are associated with the densest and darkest members of our…