Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...

NASA’s Webb Telescope detects the earliest known supernova, GRB 250314A, 730 million years after the Big Bang, capturing its ...

"This observation also demonstrates that we can use Webb to find individual stars when the universe was only 5% of its ...

Previously, the most ancient supernova ever confirmed dated back to when the universe was 1.8 billion years old.

In a major milestone for a decades-long project, the Giant Magellan Telescope project recently passed its final design review, locking in the design for the telescope enclosure and paving the way for ...

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The Gemini North telescope atop Hawaii’s lofty shield volcano Mauna Kea. A powerful telescope, perched above the clouds at some 13,800 feet, has snapped a brilliant view of distant galaxies.

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The Hubble Space Telescope has glimpsed the most distant single star it's ever observed, glimmering 28 billion light-years away. And the star could be between 50 to 500 times more massive than our sun ...

There is no shortage of ambition packed into the rocket that lifted off from French Guiana at lunchtime on Thursday. The celestial mission carries two space telescopes that aim to unravel the universe ...