Latest about James Webb Space Telescope
"We found an unexpected chemical complexity, with abundances far higher than predicted by current theoretical models."
"There is a growing chasm between theory and observation related to the early universe, which presents compelling questions to be explored going forward."
"JADES-ID1 is giving us new evidence that the universe was in a huge hurry to grow up."
Recent James Webb Space Telescope data confirms a decade-old theory that the universe's earliest supermassive black holes formed without stars.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young star flinging heat-formed crystals outward on a cosmic conveyor belt, offering a new clue to how comets evolve.
"Instead of Webb's 6.5-meter diameter, it's like we are observing this region with a 13-meter space telescope."
"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a million years."
The supernova exploded over 13 billion years ago in a galaxy far, far away.
This infrared view offers the clearest look yet at how dwarf galaxies merge, evolve, trade gas and ignite waves of new stars.
Astronomers have spotted a distant world "shedding" its atmosphere into space in real time, creating a giant cloud of helium gas that sweeps across its parent star well before the planet itself.