Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to investigate whether the most distant star identified in the universe is, ...

To estimate distances, the team analyzed the objects' brightnesses across multiple wavelengths to infer redshift, age and mass. JWST's powerful Near-Infrared Camera and Mid-Infrared Instrument are ...

No one knows where the comet came from. It’s like glimpsing a rifle bullet for a thousandth of a second,” said David Jewitt, the University of California, Los Angeles astronomer in charge of Hubble’s ...

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you,” physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson once said. But with the latest James Webb Space Telescope MIRI Deep Imaging Survey, it appears the universe is ...