Puzzling red spots in photos from the James Webb Space Telescope are probably young supermassive black holes obscured by ...

For the past few years, astronomers have grappled with a cosmic enigma first revealed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ...

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unexpected features in the early universe, including ...

This newly discovered explosion from the dawn of time is helping scientists map the chemical evolution of the first galaxies.

Three billion years after the Big Bang, a massive galaxy already looked like it had run out of time. It spun in a calm, ...

Astronomers have discovered that a young galaxy was gradually starved by its central supermassive black hole, in what was ...

Ancient galaxies colloquially known as "little red dots" have proven a mystery ever since astronomers discovered them three ...

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Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.

Since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) went into operation, red dots in its images have puzzled researchers around the ...

The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...