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James Webb telescope spots more than 100 new asteroids between Jupiter and Mars — and some are heading toward Earth
Astronomers analyzing archival images from JWST have discovered an unexpectedly vast population of the smallest asteroids ...
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James Webb Telescope Confirms the Universe Is Expanding Faster Than We Thought—and Scientists Still Don’t Know Why
Astronomers have long understood that the universe is expanding—in other words, the space in between cosmic objects that aren ...
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Webb telescope’s most extensive study of universe expansion challenges cosmic theory
The Hubble constant is still a mystery because measurements from telescopes in today’s universe give higher numbers than ...
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'Our understanding of the universe may be incomplete': James Webb Space Telescope data suggests we need a 'new cosmic feature' to explain it all
"The discrepancy between the observed expansion rate of the universe and the predictions of the standard model suggests that ...
TRAPPIST-1b: Bare Rock or Hazy Alien World? Webb’s Surprising Discovery
New observations of TRAPPIST-1b using the James Webb Space Telescope have provided detailed insights into the potential ...
NASA's James Webb Telescope Reveals Universe Expanding Faster Than Thought
The rate of expansion of the universe today is a figure known as the Hubble constant, which is typically measured in units of ...
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Webb telescope "weighs" a galaxy for the first time
Nicknamed the Firefly Sparkle, this galaxy existed just 600 million years after the Big Bang and gleams with 10 distinct star ...
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James Webb Space Telescope smashes its own record to find the earliest galaxies that ever existed
The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted five galaxy candidates dating to just 200 million years after the Big Bang, making ...
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James Webb Space Telescope finds smallest asteroids ever seen between Mars and Jupiter
By reverse-engineering James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) exoplanet data, a team of astronomers just spotted dozens of tiny ...
Frozen world beyond our solar system? NASA's James Webb Space Telescope discovers water in distant protoplanetary disk
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) detected frozen water and other volatile compounds within a protoplanetary disk 1,300 ...
The Very Best Images From the James Webb Telescope in 2024
The James Webb telescope spent another year collecting instantly iconic space imagery. Here are some of our favorites.
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Webb telescope's largest study of universe expansion confirms challenge to cosmic theory
The findings offer a crucial cross-check for previous Hubble Space Telescope measurements of the universe's mysterious ...