Recently, the astronomical community has welcomed an exciting discovery: water vapor has been detected in the atmospheres of ...

Scientists have discovered a giant black hole that they believe may have been formed in the first few microseconds after the ...

In 1925, Edwin Hubble's observation of Cepheid variables in the Andromeda galaxy revolutionized astronomy, proving the ...

Tiny red objects spotted by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are offering scientists new insights into the origins of ...

What was the universe like in the first few hundreds of millions of years after it came into existence? How did the first stars and galaxies form? Those are questions that astronomers now have a ...

Is there a scientific reason why the universe exists? In other words, what is the science of why there is anything at all, ...

Recently, the astronomical community celebrated a groundbreaking discovery—scientists have observed a supermassive black hole ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A ...

When the "little red dots" were first discovered in 2022, scientists thought the objects might be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way, which is about 13.6 billion years old. That's because galaxies ...

Near-infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope revealed five early universe galaxies merging within a large halo.

For centuries, scientists have puzzled over globular clusters, the dense star systems that orbit galaxies without dark matter ...

The early Universe hosted ultra-weak magnetic fields that still shaped cosmic structures. New simulations establish stricter limits on their strength. Magnetic fields that originated during the earlie ...