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The James Webb Space Telescope is discovering distant clusters of stars that formed surprisingly early—presenting new mysteries about how the universe evolved.

Last year kicked off the era of JWST, while astronomers mapped out the next decade of discovery and released some of the first results from the Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid Ryugu.

The James Webb Space Telescope took more than 20,000 engineers and hundreds of scientists to build, and the effort was well worthwhile. But what comes next for astronomers?

The first scientific results are coming in, and the telescope is working even better than astronomers had dared to hope.

The first scientific results are coming in, and the $10 billion instrument is working even better than astronomers had dared to hope.

The Starmus Festival is an international celebration of science, music, and more.

These individuals and organizations contributed significantly to making Maryland a better place this year and deserve recognition for their outstanding efforts.

Hints of one exoplanet atmosphere’s chemical makeup and the discovery of a planet orbiting another star are two of the telescope’s early successes.