New observations and simulations by a research team led by MPE show that a massive binary star near the center of our Galaxy ...

Massive star clusters may have blasted enough ultraviolet radiation into space to transform the early universe, new research ...

Seen just 800 million years after the big bang, an object called LAP1-B is a galactic building block that seems to hold some ...

In a recent paper in Nature, a team of scientists led by Kimihiko Nakajima, an astronomer at the Kanazawa University, Japan, ...

A team of astronomers has used the James Webb Space Telescope to chart 164,000 galaxies across billions of light-years, ...

Using the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes, researchers have captured how long it takes for clouds of gas and dust to ...

JWST has unveiled the sharpest-ever map of the universe’s hidden cosmic web, reaching back nearly to cosmic dawn.

The galaxy cluster Abell 2029 is sometimes described as "the most relaxed cluster in the universe." This moniker does not ...

The largest James Webb survey ever conducted mapped the cosmic web across deep space, exposing structures older telescopes ...

And the views are stunning, too. Astronomers have captured an extraordinary new look at the hidden birthplaces of star ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made a surprising discovery about a galaxy long, long ago and far, far ...