The James Webb Space Telescope has identified an extraordinary system of five galaxies merging when the universe was only ...

Scientists may have just uncovered one of the deepest hidden signals in the universe — a gravitational “background hum” ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the existence of a bright galaxy that formed just 280 million years after the ...

This stunning image reveals a distant galaxy cluster teeming with energy: galaxies shine in visible light (white), ghostly red clouds unveil a newly discovered radio mini-halo—the most distant ever ...

Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the researchers identified an ongoing merger event of at least ...

"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky Way came into being." ...

An international research team led by scientists at Waseda University and Tohoku University has discovered an extraordinary ...

Why didn’t the universe annihilate itself moments after the big bang? A new finding at Cern on the French-Swiss border brings us closer to answering this fundamental question about why matter ...

After nearly a century of experts theorizing and searching for the universe’s most elusive component, a Japanese astronomer believes he has finally captured the first direct glimpse of dark matter, a ...

For the three astrophysicists who won the Nobel Prize in physics today (Oct. 4), it was only a matter of when, not if, they would get the prize, their peers said. Their discovery that the universe's ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...