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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

For generations, the Big Bang has stood as the definitive origin story of the universe — an explosive moment from which time, ...

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 ...