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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists make discoveries that could alter theories about the universe's origins.

Scientists have uncovered a unique space object located 14 million light-years from Earth that is believed to be a “relic” of early galaxy formation—and, moreover, “the first confirmed detection of ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope now think the "little red dots" spotted in the early universe could be a new kind of space object. They call it a "black hole star." Credit: T.

Stars are the original nuclear fusion reactors. As it evolves, a star continuously fuses hydrogen, helium, and—if it becomes big enough—heavier elements, releasing the energy created into space as ...

On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...

Astronomers have for the first time observed the birth of one of the most extreme objects in the universe: a magnetar packing ...