NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists make discoveries that could alter theories about the universe's ...

A new study published last week in arXiv reports that researchers found an unidentified object nearly 13.5 billion light-years away in the universe.

Astronomers have discovered "dust-shrouded supermassive black holes" in the early universe, less than 1 billion years after ...

To estimate distances, the team analyzed the objects' brightnesses across multiple wavelengths to infer redshift, age and mass. JWST's powerful Near-Infrared Camera and Mid-Infrared Instrument are ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a ...

It started with a hunch. Or more accurately, a glow. Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope were combing through ...

The brightest object in the known universe has just been found. It's a supermassive black hole with the mass of 17 billion Suns, and it swallows another Suns’ worth of material every day, making ...

A gamma-ray burst from about 13 billion light years away has become the most distant object in the known universe. Edo Berger of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics offers his insight ...

Not so far away and long ago: A galaxy near the Big Dipper is no longer the "Most Distant Object Known," according to astronomers who have made new measurements of its distance. The team, led by ...

The ancient object formed when the universe was less than 10% of its current age of 13.8 billion years, according to a new study. “This is the largest radio jet seen thus far in the early Universe,” ...

If we include in our definition of the Universe everything that has happened in the past, then the hottest object in the Universe was the Big Bang itself.

Why has silicon, one of the most common elements in the universe, gone largely undetected in the atmospheres of Jupiter, ...