The James Webb Space Telescope is seeing deeper into the early universe than anything before — and what it’s finding doesn’t always make sense. Some objects appear too massive, too bright, and too ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new massive barred spiral galaxy. The newfound galaxy, designated M1149-BSG-z5, was identified using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Planets form from disks of gas and dust around young stars, but the gas needed for growth does not last forever. New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) now offer a new view of ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a bizarre object from just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang that looks like an enormous star but shines far too brightly ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists examine one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology: dark energy. New findings suggest this force may not be as constant as researchers once believed ...

Astronomers using JWST have discovered that massive early galaxies contain far more small, faint stars than expected. That hidden population could make some of these galaxies three to four times more ...

WASP-94A b is a hot, tidally locked gas giant orbiting close to one of the stars in a binary system roughly 690 light-years away from Earth. In a new Science study, scientists led by Sagnick Mukherjee ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has taken a major step forward in astronomy by performing the first direct exoplanet surface study. Instead of analyzing atmospheres, scientists examined heat emitted ...

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