The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) detected frozen water and other volatile compounds within a protoplanetary disk 1,300 light-years away in the Orion Nebula. This discovery provides crucial insights into early planetary formation and the potential for life beyond our solar system.

James Webb Space Telescope image of the stellar nursery N79 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

When the James Webb Telescope came online in 2021, it promised to give a clearer picture of the universe that could help cosmologists better measure some of these distances and therefore the expansion rate. But the high-resolution images thus far have confirmed that the tension persists.

Fresh corroboration of the perplexing observation that the universe is expanding more rapidly than expected has scientists pondering the cause - perhaps some unknown factor involving the mysterious cosmic components dark energy and dark matter.

These instruments, like the Hubble Space Telescope, reported a value of around 73 km/s/Mpc. The difference between these numbers is known as the Hubble Tension. "The discrepancy between the observed expansion rate of the universe and the predictions of the standard model suggests that our understanding of the universe may be incomplete,

NASA This NIRCam image showcases Galaxy cluster SPT-CL J0615?5746 which was first discovered when was Universe was 460 million years old.