Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to investigate whether the most distant star identified in the universe is, ...

The light from Earendel has traveled to us for 13 billion years. It could be the furthest star we have ever seen, but a new ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has delivered an unexpected twist in the case of Earendel, the most distant star ever ...

Astronomers have called into question the identity of the most distant star in the universe ever detected, Earendel, first spotted by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2022. New research using the ...

Three and a half years ago, the most distant star by far was discovered. However, it may not be a single object at all.

Alpha Centauri planet candidate discovered by JWST orbiting a Sun-like star. Learn about this potential gas giant in our ...

The JWST has captured images of the Firefly Sparkle — a galaxy that resembles an early Milky Way — in the process of being assembled from star clusters. The discovery could help to reveal how ...

More NASA researchers got a rare chance to study Uranus' atmosphere and rings this month, when the ice giant passed between Earth and a distant star, creating a "stellar occultation." This rare ...

Formed around a distant star elsewhere in the Milky Way, it is an interstellar wanderer, not a merely interplanetary one.