A stunning new image released by NASA on March 19, 2026, reveals Westerlund 2, a cluster of stars glowing in neon pink, ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered a stellar bar in GN20, a massive galaxy seen just 1.5 ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered a massive stellar bar in a distant galaxy, GN20, seen ...

Researchers said the findings may also help scientists better understand how planets form around stars.

Scientists have been trying to understand more about our solar system and the way it formed for decades. For a long time, many believed that star formation and the formation of planets came at ...

Astronomical observations show that the most massive galaxies in the early universe formed approximately three to four billion years after the Big Bang and stopped producing stars very early in cosmic ...

The findings could help solve the mystery of how the first stars formed. The roughly four-billion-year-old system consists of a black hole and two orbiting stars—a configuration that's never been seen ...

When scientists viewed the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) first images of the universe’s earliest galaxies, they were shocked. The young galaxies appeared too bright, too massive and too mature ...

When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first delivered unprecedented images of some of the universe’s earliest galaxies, it left astronomers scratching their heads. These distant galaxies, which ...