Newly discovered object is so strange that we don’t know what to call it, astronomers say - Object might be the first moon ever spotted outside of our solar system ...

A four-carbon sugar discovered 26,000 light-years away may explain how DNA's backbone arrived on Earth.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured one of the clearest views yet of how an early supermassive black hole may grow within a network of young galaxies. The compact active ...

A giant planet had been hiding inside one of astronomy’s most closely studied planetary systems, concealed by a bright disk of cosmic dust. Webb revealed Beta Pictoris d through atmospheric traces of ...