Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. If the universe is 13.6 billion years old, how can ...
“The big surprise is that with JWST, we see roughly 10 times more galaxies than expected at these incredible distances.” These are the words of Caitlin Casey, co-leader of the COSMOS-Web collaboration ...
A new University of Kansas survey of distant galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen star formation and black hole growth at "cosmic noon"—a mysterious epoch 2–3 ...
A close view on one of the most distant galaxies known: On the left are some 10,000 galaxies at all distances, observed with the James Webb Space Telescope. The zoom-in on the right shows, in the ...