A galaxy remarkably similar in shape to our own Milky Way, yet significantly bigger and dating back to the universe's infancy ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like ...

Since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope has delivered mind-blowing discoveries - from ancient galaxies formed just after the Big Bang to brand-new exoplanets, mysterious cosmic structures, ...

JWST has detected the earliest galaxies in the universe, but some look “more mature” than expected. Is it time to rethink how ...

A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...

The JWST has done it again. The powerful space telescope has already revealed the presence of bright galaxies only several ...

Can planets form and evolve within a protoplanetary disk—a region of gas and dust orbiting young stars—that is exposed to deadly ultraviolet ra | Space ...

The galaxy MoM-z14 dates back to 280 million years after the big bang, and the prevalence of such early galaxies is puzzling ...

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...

At long last, particles of water–ice have been discovered in the frozen Kuiper Belt of another star. The discovery, made by ...

When the JWST came to life and began observations, one of its first jobs was to gaze back in time at the early universe. The ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from ...