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

When looking up at the sky, you might think galaxies have always looked the way they do today. But a new study from Princeton ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 can see distant galaxies and objects within our own Milky Way. Its primary focus has recently shifted to the extreme outer regions of our galaxy, according to Space ...

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

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 ...

Brown dwarfs are too small to sustain the nuclear fusion that powers most stars, so they cool and fade over time. But if they ...

French experts have made an unprecedented discovery with NASA's James Webb Telescope after stumbling across an exoplanet which is now known as TWA 7b.