The first deep field image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA ...

The galaxies identified date back to when the universe was roughly 800 million years old, an epoch astronomers call redshift 7.

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted extreme galaxy clusters generating enough ultraviolet light to account for cosmic ...

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

The nature and evolution of stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark matter and dark energy—and our attempts to understand these things—allow us to pose the ultimate questions and reach for the ultimate ...

Surveying nearby galaxies in the process of merging with other galaxies, astronomers have identified massive, dense star ...

Scientists have scored a pristine view of a pair of exotic worlds orbiting a star more than 300 light-years away — one with ...

Pan across the James Webb Space Telescope's view of the Cosmic Cliffs, "a region at the edge of a gigantic, gaseous cavity within the star cluster NGC 3324," according to NASA/ESA. NGC 3324 is within ...

A new cosmic deep field map from the COSMOS collaboration, powered by the James Webb Space Telescope, is rewriting what ...

A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it now.