For more than a decade, astronomers quietly watched the most precise clocks in the cosmos, waiting for a barely perceptible ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the existence of a bright galaxy that formed just 280 million years after the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is seeing deeper into the early universe than anything before — and what it’s finding doesn’t always make sense. Some objects appear too massive, too bright, and too ...

Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the researchers identified an ongoing merger event of at least ...

An international research team led by scientists at Waseda University and Tohoku University has discovered an extraordinary ...

This stunning image reveals a distant galaxy cluster teeming with energy: galaxies shine in visible light (white), ghostly red clouds unveil a newly discovered radio mini-halo—the most distant ever ...

"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky Way came into being." ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

JWST spots most distant galaxy ever, pushing the limits of the observable universe The galaxy MoM-z14 could offer clues to ...

"It is exciting to think that Little Red Dots may represent the first direct observational evidence of the birth of the most massive black holes in the universe." ...