Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to investigate whether the most distant star identified in the universe is, ...

It’s worth noting that stars didn’t even start showing up until about 300 million years after the Big Bang. So, whether ...

NASA's Hubble observatory made the discovery in 2022, making it the farthest and earliest star ever seen. Astronomers named it Earendel, meaning "morning star" in Old English.

JWST observations challenge the idea that Earendel is a lone massive star. Instead, it may be a compact star cluster ...

In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, astronomers reexamined the size and brightness of Earendel, ...

Earendel, which astronomers believed to be the most distant star ever observed, may be something else according to new ...

Three and a half years ago, the most distant star by far was discovered. However, it may not be a single object at all.

Earendel is so distant that the starlight has taken 12.9 billion years to reach us. This observation of Earendel could help astronomers to investigate the early years of the universe.