When scientists viewed the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) first images of the universe’s earliest galaxies, they were shocked. The young galaxies appeared too bright, too massive and too mature ...

Two months ago, Dr. Hal Levison from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado, co-authored a paper that described a theory of “pebble formation” for gas giants. He has now expanded ...

When it comes to explaining how planets are formed, the protoplanetary hypothesis is the most widely accepted explanation. In simple terms, the donut-shaped disc of dust and gas around a star forms ...

Artist conception of early starbursting galaxies. The image is rendered from FIRE simulation data used for this research that can explain recent JWST results. Stars and galaxies are shown in the ...

The startling discovery even caused some physicists to question the standard model of cosmology, wondering whether or not it should be upended. Research uncovers that early galaxies, initially ...