The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

Uncover the insights gained from the Webb telescope about early galaxies and their role in illuminating the universe.

Webb captured an Einstein ring formed by a distant galaxy's light bending around a closer one. This rare alignment magnifies ...

NASA's SPHEREx (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) has ...

A key goal of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has been to see further than ever before into the distant past of ...

Scientists have made a stunning discovery of oxygen in the most distant galaxy known, raising questions about how galaxies ...

A tiny red speck has set a date on an important era in the Universe's early history and given astronomers a surprising ...

New observations have revealed early signs of UV light illuminating the cosmos more than 13 billion years ago.

Scientists have made the record-breaking detection of oxygen in an ancient galaxy that existed just 300 million years after ...

Astronomers have made an exciting discovery—a massive spiral disk galaxy, much larger than expected, in the early universe.

Oxygen has been detected in the most distant galaxy ever discovered, surprised astronomers said Thursday, offering further ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected oxygen in JADES-GS-z14-0, the most distant galaxy ever observed, located 13.5 ...