The James Webb Space Telescope imaged Earendel, thought to be most distant star seen in the universe so far. - NASA / ESA / CSA A quirk of nature that helps magnify extremely distant cosmic objects ...

In early 2022, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured images of the oldest and most distant star anyone had ever seen. Astronomers nicknamed it Earendel, taken from the Old English word meaning ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has glimpsed the most distant single star it's ever observed, glimmering 28 billion light-years away. And the star could be between 50 to 500 times more massive than our sun ...

The most distant known star in the universe is no longer a faint, anonymous point of light. With the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have turned that remote beacon into a richly detailed ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the universe’s birth in the big bang – the ...

Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on Reddit (opens in a new window) Share on Hacker News (opens in a new window) Share on Flipboard (opens in a new ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...