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'Interstellar messenger' 3I/ATLAS could be nearly as old as the universe itself, James Webb telescope observations revealThe comet formed in a cold and distant part of the early Milky Way up to 12 billion years ago, potentially putting it just under 2 billion years the age of the universe.
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Mysterious 'dots' discovered by Webb telescope may be the first stars in the universe on the verge of collapseA new study suggests that "little red dots" spied by the James Webb Space Telescope could be the universe's short-lived first generation of gigantic stars, challenging an existing theory.
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Physicists recreated the first millisecond after the Big Bang — and found it was surprisingly soupyScientists saw a quark plowing through primordial plasma for the first time, offering a rare look at the first moments after the Big Bang
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The earliest black holes in the universe may still be with us, surprising study claimsThe earliest black holes in the universe may not have disappeared from Hawking radiation after all, new research hints. Instead, they fed on the energy of the ancient cosmos to grow supermassive.
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James Webb telescope breaks own record, discovering farthest known galaxy in the universeThe James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the most distant, early galaxy in the known universe. The new contender, MoM-z14, is visible just 280 million years after the Big Bang.
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James Webb telescope discovers earliest Type II supernova in the known universeAn extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 billion years after the Big Bang.
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Rarrr! James Webb telescope spots 'monster stars' leaking nitrogen in the early universeResearchers using the James Webb Space Telescope spotted huge stars leaking nitrogen in an early galaxy, hinting that such 'monster stars' might have been the source of ancient supermassive black holes.
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James Webb telescope may have discovered the earliest, most distant black hole ever seenThe James Webb telescope may have detected the universe's earliest and most distant known black hole at the heart of galaxy GHZ2, revealing how the first black holes grew just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
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'Not so exotic anymore': The James Webb telescope is unraveling the truth about the universe's first black holesA peculiar object discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope just 700 million years after the Big Bang could reveal the origins of the earliest black holes in the universe, some experts say.
