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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted the most distant galaxy observed to date — breaking its own record yet again. In other words, the galaxy emitted light just 280 million years after ...

In a galaxy far, far away, there lie clues to the cosmic dawn—the first few hundreds of millions of years in our 13.8-billion-year-old universe’s early history. On Wednesday astronomers on announced ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the most distant galaxy yet detected, NASA announced Wednesday (Jan. 28), allowing astronomers to peer closer than ever before to the era when the first ...

The Webb space telescope has allowed us to peer farther back into the universe than ever before, providing a rare glimpse of the cosmos a mere 280 million years after its very existence began. Using ...

With James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA has confirmed its sightings of the farthest known galaxy to date, providing an unprecedented look back into the early universe about 280 million years ...