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An analysis of millions of galaxies found that the universe is barreling towards what is literally a much darker future.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...

Discover how JWST's groundbreaking observations of the oldest galaxies reveal new insights into early galaxies discovery and transform our understanding of galaxy formation.

A new study suggests that during a potential phase of primordial matter domination, particle interactions may have led to the formation of the universe’s first compact cosmic objects. Less than a ...

Long ago, before galaxies formed into shapes we are familiar with today and before planets formed, the earliest stars ignited ...

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

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Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is already providing new insights into this question. One of the ...