JWST has detected the earliest galaxies in the universe, but some look “more mature” than expected. Is it time to rethink how ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck II telescope have collected first-of-its-kind evidence for cloud formation on ...

A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...

The JWST has done it again. The powerful space telescope has already revealed the presence of bright galaxies only several ...

In April, scientists captured global attention by announcing they’d found a molecule in a faraway planet’s atmosphere that could signal life there. But a new analysis by University of Chicago ...

A team of astronomers discovered that planet-forming materials can survive and persist even in some of the most extreme ...

Scientific American spoke with the astronomer who has contributed to the discovery of two thirds of Saturn’s known moons ...

A new device uses quantum optics to filter out starlight in real time — bringing scientists closer to directly observing ...

The galaxy MoM-z14 dates back to 280 million years after the big bang, and the prevalence of such early galaxies is puzzling ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

When the JWST came to life and began observations, one of its first jobs was to gaze back in time at the early universe. The ...

The new observations were carried out using JWST’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), which captured signals in the mid-infrared ...