Scientists studying one of the earliest known galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope have found that the universe's ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured an image of an Einstein ring, a rare optical illusion caused by ...

Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles from the Sun, at the farthest ...

Learn about a new observation of a galaxy emitting ultraviolet light that broke through the early universe's dense fog.

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope, launched by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), was ...

Webb, which was launched by NASA in 2022 and became operational in 2023, has begun to provide a deeper understanding of the early universe. It has spotted only four galaxies dating to slightly earlier ...

A team of astronomers has stumbled upon a humungous spiral galaxy, about five times more massive than our Milky Way galaxy and covering an area two ...

Astronomers discovered bright hydrogen emissions from an ancient galaxy, puzzling researchers over how this light pierced the ...

Vivian Poulin asks if the tension between a direct measurement of the Hubble constant and constraints from the early universe ...