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The adolescent universe was much more complex than imagined, some of the first detailed snapshots of the early cosmos reveal.

It has been an exciting week with the release of breathtaking photos of our Universe by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Images such as the one below give us a chance to see faint distant galaxies as they were more than 13 billion years ago.

Jupiter and its ocean moon Europa shine in JWST test imagery. It's a preview of what's to come from the amazing new observatory.

This week, the biggest and most powerful space telescope beamed its first snapshots of the cosmos to Earth. It's a visual feast of the early universe, cosmic cliffs, dying stars and battling galaxies.

With the release of its first five stunning images, the James Webb Space Telescope has demonstrated an acute observational capacity and revealed aspects of the cosmos hitherto hidden from other telescopes

Today we saw the release of the first batch of images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. This is something we have both been waiting on for nearly 25 years. Back in those days, we were analysing the first Hubble images of the distant universe, and the details they…

We asked you to put your questions to the experts about NASA's new images of our cosmos. Here's what we learned

After decades of development and many trials and frustrations along the way, the James Webb telescope has finally started to deliver what it came for. On July 12, Nasa released the first scientific observations made by the suite of instruments carried on board the mission, marking what we eagerly anticipate…

How do planets form? For many years scientists thought they understood this process by studying the one example we had access to: our own Solar System.