Dr. Caitlin Casey, an observational astronomer, has recently joined the physics department at UC Santa Barbara. She co-leads the C.O.S.M.O.S. collaboration — a project distinguished by its deep ...

Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS ...

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

After many hours of staring unblinking at a small patch of sky, JWST has given us the most detailed map ever obtained of a corner of the Universe.

Step outside on a clear night, trace the hazy stripe of the Milky Way and enjoy the comfortable illusion that you more or less grasp our place in the ...

For years, astronomers have been working to piece together the story of our universe, but the critical early chapters ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

Thanks to JWST, the COSMOS-Web composite image instead features 800,000 galaxies going deeper than ever before, reaching back into the past to 13.5 billion years ago – 98 percent of the age of ...

An international team of scientists has unveiled the largest and most detailed map of the universe ever created using the James Webb Space Telescope, revealing nearly 800,000 galaxies stretching ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...