Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the most distant quiescent galaxy ever seen – one that had already stopped forming stars just 700 million years after the Big Bang.

YR4 had everyone collectively holding their breath just months ago, but now, it appears that the "city-killer" asteroid has a ...

At MIT, innovation ranges from awe-inspiring technology to down-to-earth creativity. Professor Erik Demaine ’s work in computational origami blends art and mathematics to solve intricate problems, ...

Explore how the Webb telescope reveals a massive black hole from the early universe living in a dormant state for most of its ...

A large asteroid whose chances of hitting Earth have been all but ruled out is now slightly more likely to hit the Moon than ...

According to the most widely accepted cosmological model, the first stars and galaxies began forming around 300-400 million ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning new images of an asteroid that was once ranked as the biggest threat ...

Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...

A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash course with Earth is now expected to miss the planet — but it still ...

Astronomers have gotten a glimpse of the "city-killer" asteroid before it disappears until 2028, according to NASA.

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show that the potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 is a ...