Galaxy NGC 6822, neighbouring the Milky Way galaxy, being studied to learn more about stars and dust in the early universe. Credit: NASA/James Webb Space Telescope Galaxy NGC 6822, neighbouring the ...

The universe is soaked in weak-but-persistent magnetic fields. Despite decades of research, astronomers still aren't exactly sure where these magnetic fields came from. But new research suggests they ...

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A new study could challenge our current understanding of the universe's age. According to a new study published in Nature Astronomy, the universe may not actually be 13.8 billion years old, as ...

New research proposes a model that determines the universe’s age to be 26.7 billion years, which accounts for the James Webb Space Telescope’s "impossible early galaxy" observations. The telescope ...

Universe May Be Twice As Old as Experts Thought — Not 13.8 But Possibly 26 Billion Years Old: New Study Around two years ago, certain observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) about the ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest the cosmos may be much older than once believed. For decades, scientists have held that the universe is about 13.8 billion years old ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a stellar explosion from a time when the cosmos was still in its infancy, catching the light of a supernova that detonated less than a billion years after ...

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