TEHRAN (ANA)- Using the James Webb Space Telescope to look back in time at the early universe, astronomers at Johns Hopkins University discovered a surprise; a cluster of galaxies merging together around a rare red quasar within a massive black hole.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Iranian National Observatory (INO), the largest home-grown scientific facility project, has recorded the first light image of its 3.4m optical telescope, which marks a major achievement.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Scientists at the University of Porto discovered barium in the atmosphere of two exoplanets – the heaviest element ever found- by using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT).

TEHRAN (ANA)- China's Shenzhou-14 astronauts will conduct extravehicular activities (EVAs) for the second time within the next few days, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Astronomers have developed a new technique to identify small planets hidden in protoplanetary disks, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reported.

TEHRAN (ANA)- The largest and most powerful space telescope in Western Asia (Middle East) is located in Iran, the country's National Observatory (INO) confirmed.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Physicists and astronomers studied gamma rays caused by the Sagittarius Dwarf, a small neighboring galaxy of our Milky Way, and found that that all the observed gamma radiation can be explained by millisecond pulsars, and can therefore not be interpreted as a smoking gun signature for the presence of dark matter.