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 ...

Scientists say it's the earliest galaxy seen doing this (so far). Astronomers have caught an immensely ancient galaxy piercing the veil of darkness that shrouded the early universe.

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

The space-based observatory will scan the cosmos in 102 colors we can't see to unlock the secret history of the universe.

Webb discovered an early cosmic boom of "red monster" galaxies, surprising even seasoned researchers who thought they knew how galaxies grow.