The James Webb Space Telescope may have broken another of its own records, finding potentially five of the earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen.

The James Webb telescope has spotted three gigantic "red monster" galaxies that were spawned soon after the Big Bang. They're so large they could rewrite the laws of galactic evolution.

If another gravity theory is correct, "then the broader implications are enormous," astrophysicist Stacy McGaugh told Newsweek.

What does it take to build the most ambitious space telescope ever? Dive into the incredible engineering and the challenges behind the James Webb Space Telescope, a project decades in the making.

For a long time, astronomers believed galaxy formation followed a very specific model: cosmic gas collects in clumps, stars are born from those clumps, and, over billions of years, stellar neighborhoods gradually increase in size. However, the James Webb Space Telescope, launched in December 2021, has disrupted that model.