Believed to be one of downtown’s oldest buildings, if not the oldest, the Webb Building dates to 1871 – the year Birmingham was founded -- when Birmingham businessman John B. Webb built it and opened ...

In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars.

The rare cosmic phenomenon, called an Einstein ring, occurs when massive objects can bend light due to their gravitational ...

Shortly after it was discovered, astronomers calculated that the asteroid had a 1-in-83 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 — ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently turned its watchful eye toward asteroid 2024 YR4, which we now know poses no ...

Webb Telescope captures an Einstein ring in the Hydrus constellation Light bends around a massive galaxy, forming a glowing ring Gravitational lensing helps study distant galaxies and dark matter ...

Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by ...

Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...

The infamous 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4, which is large enough to destroy an entire city, still has a 2% chance of ...

For a long time, scientists thought that only actively star-forming galaxies should be observed in the very early Universe.

Astronomers have found early evidence of the Universe’s transformation from a foggy, opaque state to a transparent one, ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals a cosmic mirage known as an Einstein ring, where the light ...