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 ...

At long last, particles of water–ice have been discovered in the frozen Kuiper Belt of another star. The discovery, made by ...

Astronomers have identified Zhúlóng, a spiral galaxy existing 12.8 billion years ago, using the James Webb Space Telescope.

Travel to James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam and MIRI instrument views of protostar L1527. The protostar is about 100,000 years old. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Paul Morris: Lead ...

Firefly Sparkle,” a galaxy that existed about 600 million years after the big bang, has been imaged by the James Webb Space ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has discovered water ice in a young star amongst the solar systems debris belt.

The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...

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

"For the first time we can see the chemical cake while it's rising in the oven, instead of just the starting ingredients of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has made a groundbreaking observation of methane clouds in Titan's northern hemisphere, a ...

When we think about asteroids that could threaten Earth, we often imagine massive, city-sized rocks hurtling through space.

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