Astronomers have made the surprising discovery of oxygen and elements like heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The galaxy is 13.4 billion light-years away, meaning it formed in the early ...

Astronomers have found oxygen in the farthest, and thus the earliest, galaxy ever seen. This marks the most distant detection of oxygen ever made by humanity. This early galaxy, designated ...

Tools like the James Webb Space Telescope are allowing scientists to look further back into the history of the universe than ever before, discovering incredibly distant objects like a galaxies from ...

Astronomers spotted a distant supermassive black hole launching record-speed winds after an intense X-ray flare, revealing ...

The precise location in the night sky of the galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0, an extremely tiny dot in the Fornax constellation. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Carniani et al./S. Schouws et al/JWST: NASA, ESA, ...

Learn to decode James Webb photos with this JWST image guide, offering clear space image explanation and beginner-friendly insights into stunning infrared telescope images.

UCLA astronomers have made the first accurate measurement of the abundance of oxygen in a distant galaxy. Oxygen, the third-most abundant chemical element in the universe, is created inside stars and ...

To judge from the headlines, astronomy is nothing more than an ongoing quest to set a Guinness World Record. It’s always seems to be about the tiniest galaxy, or the most Earthlike planet, or the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) excels at a lot of things, but there are two things it does better than any other scientific instrument in human history: spotting early galaxies and breaking its ...

Webb traced the light of a dying star, supernova GRB 250314A, from when the universe was only 730 million years old.

Studying several tens of distant galaxies, an international team of astronomers found that galaxies had the same amount of dark matter relative to stars 6 billion years ago as they have now. If ...

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