These are big, literally cosmic questions, and astronomers continue to struggle to nail down the answers. Different ...

But the Webb may have just identified a solution to the dilemma as well. It has spotted a black hole that appears to have ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has presented data that directly challenges our current ...

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New findings captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest the universe is older by almost double what scientists previously thought. For years, cosmologists thought the universe was ...

Space never ceases to amaze us, but what the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just found has changed everything that we know ...

Estimates of how fast the universe is expanding disagree. Could a new form of dark energy resolve the problem?

For nearly 10 years we’ve been operating in a search mode, and any day we could make a discovery,” said Gray Rybka, a ...

Webb's high-resolution instruments uncover distant objects, enabling studies of early stars, galaxies, and habitable ...

On a mountain in northern Chile, scientists are carefully assembling the intricate components of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin ...

Astrophysical explosions are, to give a few examples, driven by the collapse of the iron core of a massive star (known as a ...

Growing up in Long Beach, California, his parents adhered to a creationist view of the universe. But young Koerner caught ...