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

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.

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

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: ...

Webb Telescope finds crystalline water ice around star HD 181327. This discovery could reveal how icy bodies contribute to ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory have captured the clearest image yet of a galaxy cluster in the making, seen when the universe was only one billion years old.

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

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

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

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

HOUSTON, TX -A seven-year-old girl in Lucknow stood in her backyard at dawn in October 1957, watching Sputnik streak across the sky. Nearly seven decades later, that child would help steer some of ...