The researchers discovered the galaxy, named "Firefly Sparkle" because the dots in it resemble the glowing insects, thanks to ...

The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young galaxy dating to the early universe - called ...

Stunning new photographs taken by Wellesley College astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have unveiled a newly ...

Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Geoff Bennett and Miles O'Brien discussed why scientists are excited ...

Since the galaxy looks like a "sparkle" or swarm of fireflies on a warm summer night, they named it the Firefly Sparkle galaxy. The research team modeled what the galaxy might have looked like if ...

Firefly Sparkle is still in the process of assembling and has a mass equivalent to about 10 million solar masses.

Firefly Sparkle is a lightweight among the universe's galaxy contenders seen by Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope, but the discovery is no less important than more massive galaxies because of what ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young galaxy dating to the early universe - called Firefly Sparkle because its gleaming star clusters resemble the ...

This "Firefly Sparkle" galaxy could reveal how our own galaxy evolved. First predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity in 1915, gravitational lensing occurs because light is warped as ...

Firefly Sparkle Galaxy Offers a Taste of the Infant Milky Way By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young galaxy dating to the early universe ...