The James Webb Space Telescope has pushed the edge of the observable universe deeper into the past, revealing a galaxy whose ...

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 ...

This stunning image reveals a distant galaxy cluster teeming with energy: galaxies shine in visible light (white), ghostly red clouds unveil a newly discovered radio mini-halo—the most distant ever ...

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 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 ...

The most distant known star in the universe is no longer a faint, anonymous point of light. With the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have turned that remote beacon into a richly detailed ...