than 2.2 billion light-years away, for more than 13 hours. The gravity of the cluster’s trillion stars, plus dark matter, acts as a 2-million-light-year-wide “lens” in space. This “gravitational lens” ...

An artist's conception of the James Webb Space Telescope as it captures views of the deep cosmos. Credit: NASA The James Webb Space Telescope just looked back in time a whopping 13.4 billion years.

The deep cosmos is often viewed as a realm of chaotic beauty, yet occasionally, a signal breaks through the static that defies the established order of nature. The latest visual evidence emerging from ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...