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Over 40 stars in a galaxy billions of light-years away were photographed, offering a glimpse into an era when the universe ...

The discovery was made owing to a scientific phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, which is when a large celestial body ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new details about star formation and the galaxy’s central black hole. A festive portrait of our Milky Way ...

Using commercially available telescopes and spectral filters, an amateur astronomer named Steve Hill collected data to map ...

James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected and "weighed" a galaxy - seen 600 million years after the Big Bang - that is ...

A groundbreaking study combining the efforts of amateur and professional astronomers has redefined our understanding of ...

The research group observed a galaxy nearly 6.5 billion light-years from Earth; when the universe was half its current age.

While the extra-galactic stars provided a microlensing effect, large clusters of dark matter provided a macrolensing effect.