Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope spotted huge stars leaking nitrogen in an early galaxy, hinting that such ...

Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the light of a star that exploded when the universe was still in its cosmic youth ...

A faint, ancient flash of light detected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has broken the record for the most distant ...

LOS ANGELES — Scientists have found the most distant space object yet observed, a galaxy born just 500 million years after the Big Bang. The record-breaking discovery, reported Wednesday in the ...

JADES-GS-z14-0, the farthest known galaxy, has oxygen, a heavier element than scientists would expect to find just 300 million years after the Big Bang. Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser illustration ...

Mysterious light appears in the images pulled from the depths of the universe using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). And now, it finally has an explanation. JWST, the next-generation observatory ...

When completed, the Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO) will be the world's most sensitive and most powerful radio telescope — that is, if SpaceX's Starlink satellites don't ruin its view. When ...

The space agency said supernovas typically brighten rapidly over a period of several weeks before they slowly start to dim. This example, however, took months to ...

When do galaxies stop forming new stars? This is what a study published today in Nature hopes to address as a team of researchers led by the Kavli Institute for Cosmology used NASA’s James Webb Space ...

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed the dramatic dance between a supermassive black hole-powered quasar and merging galaxies less than a billion years after the Big Bang.