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Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.
A new University of Kansas survey of distant galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen star ...
Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.
The NASA boffins in white coats and thick-rimmed glasses have detected new signals that show the Oort cloud - the spooky shell of icy objects at the very edge of our solar system - might have ...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met with a delegation from the Chinese space technology company GalaxySpace, led by its ...
An astonishing discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope may rewrite our understanding of the Universe’s early years. A ...
An undated image from NASA’s Webb Space Telescope shows an outflow from a nearby still-forming star in infrared light, with a spiral galaxy off in the distance. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP ...
In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding?
Zhúlóng is the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. It formed 1 billion years after Big Bang, yet has a calm structure like ...
The potential discovery of life elsewhere is down to the unprecedented sensitivity of Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope.
"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...
An international team has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date. This ultra-massive system existed just one billion years after the Big Bang and already shows a remarkably ...