For decades, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form. But three new studies raise ...

Prior to this discovery, made as part of the James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST's) Galactic Legacy Infrared Midplane Survey ...

The LCDM argues that the first galaxies to form in the universe did not have enough time to become so massive. "Finding three ...

The Epoch of Reionization — the universe’s last major transition — may have happened earlier than previously thought.

Although galaxies appear pretty quickly after the Big Bang, the rate at which they grow was thought too slow for massive galaxies to emerge during the Cosmic Dawn. So, when JWST turned its golden eye ...

Physicists have long grappled with the question of why the universe was able to support the evolution of intelligent life.

The universe was ionized for a first ... Muñoz and his team used JWST to estimate how many photons were produced by early galaxies. The team also estimated the fraction of such light that would ...

Researchers have discovered three ultra-massive galaxies from the universe's first billion years, challenging existing models of star formation. These galaxies, identified with the James Webb Space ...

A group of international scientists discovered three ultra-massive “Red Monster” galaxies capable of forming their own stars ...