"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 ...

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

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 ...

Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" ...

"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 ...