A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Now, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered barred Milky Way-like galaxies much further back in time ... galaxies were recently observed using James Webb.

These galaxies, observed during the universe's so-called ... Complicating the picture further, some smaller galaxies seem to have greater mass than their larger counterparts, going against ...

The United States Postal Service has issued two new stamps featuring stellar images beamed back to Earth by the James Webb ...

The find is a big leap further back in time than with the previous ... a great distance are clusters of stars within primitive galaxies. “Normally, at these distances, entire galaxies see ...

Named Earendel, after a character from J.R.R Tolkien’s Silmarillion, this star is the most distant ever observed by scientists and is now ... in 2022 using the Hubble telescope. “Typically, galaxies ...

Matter in intergalactic space is distributed in a vast network of interconnected filamentary structures, collectively ...

A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than ...

rapid growth phases that created the “monster galaxies” observed in the study. These new findings add to the understanding of galaxy formation and it presents a more efficient method scientists hope ...

A fast radio burst, or a strong pulse of energy, was tracked to a distant long-dead galaxy that astronomers never thought ...