The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted five galaxy candidates dating to just 200 million years after the Big Bang, making ...

A new effort to map the rumblings in spacetime caused by enormous black hole collisions paints a surprisingly loud and ...

Our journey to comprehend the Universe’s edge begins with the concept of the observable Universe. This term refers to the ...

Astronomers have known for a century that the universe is expanding. We can now trace this expansion over much of its almost ...

Webb’s Powerful Mid-Infrared Instrument Resolves Clumpy Nature of Dusty Disk Astronomers are known for their precision, but ...

Most people associate the discovery that faraway galaxies are receding from us - and thus, that the universe is expanding - ...

Nov. 12, 2024 — The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies.

The formation of galaxies in the universe should follow a fairly simple path. It starts with small galaxies, which then grow bigger and bigger until they become the giant galaxies we see in the modern ...

The Sombrero galaxy looks entirely different in a new image by the James Webb Space Telescope. Instead of a Mexican hat, it ...

Scientists hope to use a gamma ray telescope to observe a future supernova to help prove the existence of dark matter.

The newfound galaxy group consists of at least five members in an isolated pocket of the universe about 117 million light-years from Earth. Together, these galaxies span 502,408 light-years and ...

Researchers have found that there's something highly unusual about the Milky Way, setting it apart from other galaxies. As ...