Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the ...

"We really needed the sensitivity of JWST. We also needed the 100 times magnification from gravitational lensing from a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is now delivering what astronomers have chased for decades: a glimpse of the universe’s first ...

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That's the case for a galaxy described in a new paper by PhD student Sijia Cai of Tsinghua University's Department of ...

The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...

Astronomers studying a distant galaxy using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found the best candidates yet for the universe’s first stars. Shining brilliantly but briefly, they would have ...

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

The light from the most distant galaxy in the known universe suggests that there's something off about our current cosmological models, a new James Webb Space Telescope study finds. The explanations ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may have detected the universe's oldest Population III stars in galaxy LAP1-B, 13 billion ...

Queen guitarist Sir Brian May's latest book explores the history, mystery and evolution of galaxies in a way never tried ...

Look up at the sky on a clear night, and you’ll see thousands of stars – about 6,000 or so. But that’s only a tiny fraction of all the stars out there. The rest are too far away for us to see them.