New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

"I never dreamed of Webb seeing them in such large numbers." ...

Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands—driven by the mysterious "dark energy"—locally, ...

Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

New findings from the James Webb Space Telescope contradict traditional theories about early galaxy formation, revealing ...

Astronomers used JWST and gravitational lensing to spot 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years away.

"It has a striking evolved morphology: a quiescent-like classical bulge + star-forming stellar disk + grand-design spiral ...

A new effort to map the rumblings in spacetime caused by enormous black hole collisions paints a surprisingly loud and ...