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Two new studies have measured the expansion of the universe in our immediate cosmic neighborhood using a novel method that ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just pushed the boundaries of astronomical observation. A galaxy named MoM-z14 has been identified as the most distant object ever observed. This discovery, ...

When Brant Robertson saw a new measurement of the distance to a familiar galaxy, he laughed out loud. For more than a decade, the galaxy had been a contender for the most distant ever observed. In ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the most distant “jellyfish galaxy” ever seen — a cosmic oddity ...

The most distant galaxy cluster yet has been discovered by combining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical and infrared telescopes. The cluster is located about 10.2 billion light ...

It was based on observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, Gemini North Telescope, and NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope ...

This galaxy existed just 400 million years after the Big Bang and provides new insights into the first generation of galaxies. This is the first time that the distance of an object so far away has ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest and most distant galaxies confirmed to date using data from the James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope captured light emitted by these galaxies more than 13 ...