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Artist's impression of the exoplanet K2-18b, with a red dwarf star behind it

Strongest hints yet of biological activity outside the solar system

17 Apr 2025

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they remain cautious.

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JADES-GS-z13-1 in the GOODS-S field

Webb Telescope sees galaxy in mysteriously clearing fog of early Universe

26 Mar 2025

Astronomers have identified a bright hydrogen emission from a galaxy in the very early Universe. ̽»¨Ö±²¥surprise finding is challenging researchers to...

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Artist’s impression of a black hole during one of its short periods of rapid growth

Massive black hole in the early universe spotted taking a ‘nap’ after overeating

18 Dec 2024

Scientists have spotted a massive black hole in the early universe that is ‘napping’ after stuffing itself with too much food.

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Galaxy NGC 1549, seen today and 13 billion years ago

‘Inside-out’ galaxy growth observed in the early universe

11 Oct 2024

Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe the ‘inside-out’ growth of a galaxy in the early universe, only 700...

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Pablo's Galaxy

Astronomers detect black hole ‘starving’ its host galaxy to death

12 Sep 2024

Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope to confirm that supermassive black holes can starve their host galaxies of the fuel...

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Deep field image from JWST

Earliest detection of metal challenges what we know about the first galaxies

06 Jun 2024

Astronomers have detected carbon in a galaxy just 350 million years after the Big Bang, the earliest detection of any element in the universe other...

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Infrared image showing JADES-GS-z14-0 galaxy

Earliest, most distant galaxy discovered with James Webb Space Telescope

30 May 2024

̽»¨Ö±²¥two earliest and most distant galaxies yet confirmed, dating back to only 300 million years after the Big Bang, have been discovered using NASA’s...

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 ̽»¨Ö±²¥environment of the galaxy system ZS7 from the JWST PRIMER programme as seen by Webb's NIRCam instrument.

Webb detects most distant black hole merger to date

16 May 2024

An international team of astronomers, led by the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge, has used the James Webb Space Telescope to find evidence for an ongoing...

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False-colour JWST image of a small fraction of the GOODS South field, with JADES-GS-z7-01-QU highlighted

Astronomers spot oldest ‘dead’ galaxy yet observed

06 Mar 2024

A galaxy that suddenly stopped forming new stars more than 13 billion years ago has been observed by astronomers.

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This image shows the galaxy EGSY8p7, a bright galaxy in the early Universe where light emission is seen from, among other things, excited hydrogen atoms – Lyman-α emission.

Galaxy mergers solve early Universe mystery

18 Jan 2024

A team of astronomers, led by the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge, has used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to reveal, for the first time, what...

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 ̽»¨Ö±²¥GN-z11 galaxy, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope

Astronomers detect oldest black hole ever observed

17 Jan 2024

Researchers have discovered the oldest black hole ever observed, dating from the dawn of the universe, and found that it is ‘eating’ its host galaxy...

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Carbon-based molecules found in atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18b

11 Sep 2023

An international team of astronomers led by the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge has used data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to discover...

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