When the JWST began science observations in July 2022, it flung open a whole new window on the universe. The JWST looked ...

This is as close to a smoking gun as we’re likely ever going to get, Yale University’s Pieter van Dokkum announced, after his ...

A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other ...

At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

In a discovery that could change how we understand the universe, a team of astronomers led by Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum has ...

"It was something I’ve never seen before and I’ve looked at tens of thousands of images of galaxies over my career," he said.

"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We ...

Hidden in the ‘Infinity Galaxy,’ a black hole floats in space where none should exist, upending old ideas about black hole birth.

Discoveries keep pouring out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Researchers observed an unusual cluster, which they ...

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...