The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has shattered another cosmic record, detecting the most distant galaxy ever observed—MoM-z14—just 280 million years after the Big Bang. This remarkable ...

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JADES-GS-z14-0, the farthest known galaxy, has oxygen, a heavier element than scientists would expect to find just 300 million years after the Big Bang. Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser illustration ...

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Observations of the most distant galaxy ever identified revealed traces of oxygen from at least one previous generation of stars, a sign that star formation got off to an early start. To observe the ...

That's the case for a galaxy described in a new paper by PhD student Sijia Cai of Tsinghua University's Department of ...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

LOS ANGELES — A galaxy once considered the oldest has reclaimed its title, scientists reported Wednesday. Poring through Hubble Space Telescope photos, the team recalculated the galaxy's age and ...