Webb telescope captures PMR 1 nebula 5,000 light-years away that resembles a cosmic brain, revealing how dying stars create ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observed three galaxies in the universe's very early stages. The galaxies were likely forming around when our universe was 400 million to 600 million years old.

Astronomers have spotted what may be one of the universe’s earliest barred spiral galaxies — a striking cosmic structure forming just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. The galaxy, COSMOS-74706, ...

Scientists discovered a distant jellyfish galaxy with star-forming "tails" stretching back 8.5 billion years.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fresh corroboration of the perplexing observation that the universe is expanding more rapidly than expected has scientists pondering the cause - perhaps some unknown factor ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated 70 dusty galaxies at the very edge of the universe that ...

Astronomers have confirmed a bright galaxy called MoM-z14 that already existed just 280 million years after the Big Bang.

The galaxy group Pandora’s Cluster sits in front of a cosmic background brimming with deep space galaxies. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / I. Labbe (Swinburne University of Technology) / R. Bezanson ...

Scientists used new data taken by the James Webb Space Telescope to make a new reading of the rate at which the universe is expanding over time, by measuring light from 10 galaxies including the one ...

Researchers have confirmed three objects spotted with the James Webb Space Telescope in the early universe are galaxies brimming with unexpectedly old stars. Credit: NASA-GSFC / Adriana M. Gutierrez ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest and most powerful launched into space to date. Launched from French Guiana in December 2021, the spacecraft observes the universe from its orbit ...

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