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

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

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

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

Patterns seen in MoM-z14 are also common among the most ancient stars in the Milky Way, according to the researchers.

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

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

an astrophysicist at China's Nanjing University, studied elliptical galaxies, which are known to have been the first galaxies to form in the universe's infancy. "We considered multiple well ...

Researchers propose a new theory for the origin of dark matter, the invisible substance thought to give the universe its ...

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