Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

RIT researchers will be co-investigators on nine of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Cycle 4 programs set to begin in early ...

Since July 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized our cosmic understanding, delivering breathtaking images.

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has identified 83 small galaxies undergoing intense star ...

Everything in space—from Earth and the sun to black holes—accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe. The rest of ...

Abell 2255 is a cluster containing between 300 and 500 constituent galaxies, many of which are merging. It's located around ...

Webb discovered dozens of small, powerful galaxies from 800 million years ago that likely drove cosmic reionization by ...

Astronomers analyzing data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered hundreds of tiny galaxies that played key ...

New observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope now point to the culprits that cleared the haze: dozens of dwarf ...

The team analysed images from the UNCOVER observing program, which focused on the massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744, also known as Pandora’s cluster. This cluster’s immense gravity acts as a natural ...