The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C (Sgr C). Reported to be around 300 light-years from the Milky Way’s central ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from ...

JWST uncovers unexpected behavior in polar lights on Jupiter, while a Mars rover captures the first image of an aurora.

Astronomical observations with the James Webb Space Telescope support the hypothesis that the first pronounced structures in our Universe may have formed much earlier than previously assumed.