Photo: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/B. Robertson/B. Johnson/S. Tacchella/P. Cargile As best as we can tell with the tools at our disposal, the Universe is 13.7 billion years old, give or take 200 million years.

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known objects in the universe. The study may help scientists test theories about how ...

The key enabling tools behind the discovery are the extraordinary sensitivity of JWST and a phenomenon called gravitational ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted a 13 billion year old galaxy that defies understanding. ZF-UDS-7329 seems to be bigger than the Milky Way, which scientists thought was impossible that early ...

Star Wars has released a brand new galaxy map that features some staggering new reveals - and major setup for the future. The Star Wars galaxy is a vast one; according to the old Expanded Universe, ...

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA–Peering back in time more than 7 billion years, a team of astronomers using a powerful new spectrograph at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii has obtained the first maps showing ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope spotted a twin of the Milky Way in the depths of the universe. The galaxy formed shortly after the Big Bang, which was thought to be impossible. This could mean there's ...