Travel about 2,500 light-year away in the constellation Vela to see James Webb Space Telescope stunning view of NGC 3132, the ...

Light is a time machine: all we see, from stars to galaxies, shows the past. Expanding space stretches light, letting ...

What was the Milky Way like billions of years ago? One way we can find out is by looking at the most distant galaxies in the ...

Enlightened people see themselves and all humans as fellow citizens of one world – travelling on the same planet spinning ...

Not long ago, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) peered into Cosmic Dawn, the cosmological period when the first galaxies ...

Kartheik Iyer, a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University in New York, was the co-author on the paper on Firefly Sparkle. It ...

That’s an observation, made around a decade ago, that the universe seems to be expanding faster than it should be according ...

Astronomers have long understood that the universe is expanding—in other words, the space in between cosmic objects that aren ...

Scientists are stunned by new data from the James Webb Space Telescope, which confirms that the universe is expanding at an ...

New research reveals a fourth planet in the Kepler-51 system, altering our understanding of this unique system with three ...

Nicknamed the Firefly Sparkle, this galaxy existed just 600 million years after the Big Bang and gleams with 10 distinct star ...

This mid-infrared image of colliding galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 from the James Webb Space Telescope shows two large ...