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Has JWST Finally Found the First Stars in the Universe?
New observations from JWST hint at pockets of new gas in the halo of more evolved galaxies, where these first-generation…
JWST Shows How the Early Universe Was Furiously Forming Stars
We can gaze out into regions in our neighbourhood of the Milky Way and find orgies of star birth. The…
JWST Sees Organic Molecules Ludicrously Far Away
When astronomers used the JWST to look at a galaxy more than 12 billion light years away, they were also…
The Latest JWST Image Pierces Through a Shrouded Star-Forming Galaxy
Sometimes an image is so engrossing that we can ignore what it's telling us about its subject and just enjoy…
JWST Scans an Ultra-Hot Jupiter’s Atmosphere
When astronomers discovered WASP-18b in 2009, they uncovered one of the most unusual planets ever found. It's ten times as…
Here's How You Could Get Impossibly Large Galaxies in the Early Universe
A study by an Israeli team of astronomers offers a solution to the "impossibly massive" galaxies Webb observed.
JWST Spies a Gigantic Water Plume at Enceladus
The James Webb Space Telescope has observed a huge water vapor plume emanating from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Astronomers say the…
Remember Those Impossibly Massive Galaxies? They May Be Even More Massive
A new analysis of those James Webb images showed that the galaxies it observed (deemed "too massive") could be even…
Astronomers Find an Earth-Sized World That May Be Carpeted in Volcanoes
Astronomers think they've found an extrasolar planet covered in volcanoes like Jupiter's moon Io, but this world is about the…
JWST Finds a Comet Still Holding Onto Water in the Main Asteroid Belt
Comets are instantly recognizable by their tails of gas and dust. Most comets originate in the far, frozen reaches of…