Astronomers have discovered 44 new stars in a distant galaxy using the James Webb Space Telescope and gravitational lensing.

Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope identified over 40 stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years away, thanks to ...

The discovery was made owing to a scientific phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, which is when a large celestial body ...

A phenomenon called gravitational lensing turned a galaxy into a "hall of mirrors of cosmic proportions," allowing for the discovery.

Gravitational lenses have been used previously to resolve individual stars in the distant Universe. Using the microlensing of ...

Astronomers used JWST and gravitational lensing to spot 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years away.

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant ...

Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 ...

Never give up, never surrender… As the classic sci-fi comedy clocks up a quarter-century, we look back at a movie that ...

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and ...

A grand spiral galaxy takes center stage in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy, known as NGC 5643, is located roughly 40 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Lupus.