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, ...

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 ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have created the clearest map yet of the universe’s “cosmic web” — the enormous hidden structure that connects galaxies across space. By analyzing ...

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 ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted something that shouldn’t exist—at least not so early in the ...