This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month brings us a scene from the distant universe. Pictured here ...

JWST observations of galaxy cluster MACS J1149 show gravitational lensing used by CANUCS to study distant low-mass galaxies across a wide range of cosmic time.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The James Webb Space Telescope observed the same region of sky captured in the famous Hubble Ultra Deep Field image, revealing ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...

There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...

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Since launching in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has found hundreds of distant and apparently bright galaxies dubbed ...

Indian astronomers have discovered a cluster of quasars that spout jets of matter that extend out for 7.2 million light-years — many times bigger than our own galaxy. The mind-bending study was ...

The "Cosmic Grapes" galaxy formed just 900 million years after the Big Bang, revealing a never-before-seen structure.

As a science communicator, I don’t think a week goes by without a press release hitting my inbox informing me of astronomers finding some new record-breaking object. Sometimes it’s the smallest planet ...

Recent research suggests that galaxies with high radio emissions—known as “radio-bright” galaxies—could be home to alien civilizations. This idea, explored in Brian C. Lacki’s study Artificial ...

LOS ANGELES — A galaxy once considered the oldest has reclaimed its title, scientists reported Wednesday. Poring through Hubble Space Telescope photos, the team recalculated the galaxy's age and ...