The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

COSMOS-Web was the largest General Observer program selected by the James Webb Space Telescope for Cycle 1. The team, led by RIT Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe, has publicly released its full ...

How can a galaxy display perfectly defined spiral arms when the Universe had only a little over 10% of its current age? This ...

(CNN) — Astronomers have spotted the oldest "dead" galaxy ever observed while studying the cosmos with the James Webb Space Telescope, and it's one of the deepest views into the distant universe made ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

The cosmos, in its infinite complexity, has once again defied expectations. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered something extraordinary: a primordial galaxy, ...

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Using the ALMA telescope in Chile and Einstein's theory of relativity, scientists observed a young galaxy in the early universe that is invisible in nearly every wavelength. When you purchase through ...

NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope just found a rare gem in the universe! The galaxy CGCG 396-2 - a rare, intriguing multi-armed galaxy merger located around 520 million light-years from Earth in the ...

Down on humanity lately? Consider the following fact, which should fill you with pride for your species. Little more than a century ago, humans believed that our universe consisted solely of the Milky ...