A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

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Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...

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Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...

The cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star ...

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The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially ceased its scientific operations after 12 years of service ...

Crucial to all life on Earth, the 15th element of phosphorus remains a real puzzle for astronomers. Specialized space ...

Scientists are keen to get to the bottom of the dark matter puzzle because this phenomenon accounts for the vast majority of ...