Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...

This region, which lies about 58,000 light-years from the Milky Way’s center, has been captured in stunning detail by the James Webb telescope, revealing new insights into star formation in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The perplexing Milky Way 'twin' dates to 1 billion years after the Big Bang ...

Webb's imagery has enabled scientists to better study star formation in the outer Milky Way. The James Webb Space Telescope has spent three years observing remote galaxies, black holes and distant ...

Disk galaxies, like our own Milky Way galaxy, commonly consist of both a thick and thin disk of stars—each with different ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The perplexing Milky Way 'twin' dates to 1 billion years after the Big Bang ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

A Milky Way twin like never before found by James Webb Space Telescope “Zhúlóng stands out due to its striking resemblance to the Milky Way in terms of shape, size, and stellar mass,” says Xiao.

A new study has proposed the existence of a new type of cosmic object that could be hiding at the centre of our galaxy. This ...