Astronomy and space exploration are exercises of finding horizons and then pushing beyond them. When we built the first telescopes and discovered other worlds, the horizon became the solar system.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has delivered an unexpected twist in the case of Earendel, the most distant star ever discovered. Previously believed to be a singular, massive star located 12.9 ...

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A quirk of nature that helps magnify extremely distant cosmic objects allowed a space telescope to see a star that existed when the universe was only 900 million years old. NASA's Hubble observatory ...

The most distant star ever discovered may have been misclassified: Instead of being a single star, the object — nicknamed Earendel from the Old English word for "morning star" — may be a star cluster, ...

Hubble has spotted the most distant single star ever seen, about 12.9 billion light-years from Earth. The light from this star was emitted not long after the Big Bang, and has been magnified by a ...

Hubble sets a new distance record and sees a single star 12.9 billion light-years away. We're also expecting more aurora Thursday night, March 31. The most distant star, named Earendel, appears as a ...

A chance alignment may have revealed a star from the universe’s first billion years. “These are the sorts of things that you only hope you could discover,” says astronomer Katherine Whitaker of the ...

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Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have found a very distant single star or star system that exists around 900 million years after the Big Bang, which occurred 13.8 billion years ago. The ...