The galaxy MoM-z14 dates back to 280 million years after the big bang, and the prevalence of such early galaxies is puzzling ...

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 ...

Structures known as "zippers" and "twisters" in the early universe may explain why dwarf galaxies tend to line up with each ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

The "afterglow" of the universe is an important piece of evidence for the Big Bang. This background radiation also provides ...

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

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from the James Webb Space telescope (JWST) in an area of the sky called COSMOS ...

"This shocking result means that we now need to revisit the very foundations of everything we know about cosmology," said the reseachers.

Through a citizen science project called Galaxy Zoo, volunteers can help astronomers analyze over 500,000 James Webb Space ...

Dark matter, though invisible, weighs heavily on how we understand the universe. Its gravity sculpts galaxies, holds clusters ...

Researchers suggest the universe's background radiation has been overestimated, potentially challenging the standard model of ...