Seattle, WA – Scientists have discovered something unexpected while studying masers around oddball star MWC 349A: a previously unseen jet of material launching from the star's gas disk at...

Cambridge, Mass. – For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet whose orbit is decaying around an evolved, or older, host star. The stricken world appears destined to spiral ...

Editor's Note: This post highlights data from Webb science in progress, which has not yet been through the peer-review process.

Cambridge, Mass. – Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) — the most energetic explosions in the universe — come in two varieties, long and short. Long GRBs, which last from two to hundreds of seconds, ...

Cambridge, Mass. – Two astrophysicists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have suggested a way to observe what could be the second-closest supermassive black hole ...

Cambridge, Mass – The telescope's array of highly sensitive instruments was trained on the atmosphere of a "hot Saturn" — a planet about as massive as Saturn orbiting a star some 700...

Cambridge, MA – Short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are some of the most powerful and luminous cosmic explosions since the Big Bang. Despite this, only a few of these short flashes of radiation...

  Cambridge, Mass. – A new study has revealed the true shape of the diffuse cloud of stars surrounding the disk of our galaxy. For decades, astronomers thought this cloud of stars&n...

Cambridge, MA – A few days after officially starting science operations, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope propelled astronomers into a realm of early galaxies, previously hidden beyond t...

Cambridge, MA – Astronomers have discovered the closest black hole to Earth, which the researchers have dubbed Gaia BH1. The dormant black hole weighs about 10 times the mass of the Sun a...