For decades, astronomers have known that galaxies are not scattered randomly through space. They cling to an enormous, mostly invisible network of dark-matter filaments, a structure so vast it dwarfs ...

Researchers said the findings may also help scientists better understand how planets form around stars.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery of interacting elliptical and spiral galaxies known as Arp 107. Credit: ...

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Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have mapped the "cosmic web" of galaxies, the largest structure in the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have created the most detailed map of the cosmic web ever.

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Astronomers discovered massive star clusters form faster than smaller ones, dispersing gas clouds in five million years, ...

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Scientists have discovered a galaxy as it was 13 billion years ago, 800 million years after the Big Bang. It contains possible evidence of the universe's first stars and is one of the most chemically ...