Telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope can observe some incredibly distant galaxies, stretching all the ...

An international team of physicists, led in the UK by our Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, has discovered over 40 ...

The international team used observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... spiral into an elongated shape – like a "hall of mirrors" of cosmic proportions. Using the technique ...

Looking halfway across the observable universe and expecting to see individual stars is considered a non-starter in astronomy ...

"I never dreamed of Webb seeing them in such large numbers." ...

The James Webb Space Telescope can look deeper (and earlier) into the cosmos than any telescope before it. How much do you ...

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 ...

Three years ago on Christmas Day, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most powerful telescope humans have ever launched into space, had its thrilling debut. Since then ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have used a distortion in space to reveal over 40 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years from the Milky Way — halfway back to the ...

Two years of data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have now validated the Hubble Space Telescope's earlier finding that the rate of the universe's expansion is faster - by about 8 per cent ...

The research group observed a galaxy nearly 6.5 billion light-years from Earth; when the universe was half its current age.

Why it's so special: This iconic montage features images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune captured between 2014 and 2024 as part of the Hubble Space ... % to go —James Webb telescope ...