When the JWST came to life and began observations, one of its first jobs was to gaze back in time at the early universe. The ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from ...

an astrophysicist at China's Nanjing University, studied elliptical galaxies, which are known to have been the first galaxies to form in the universe's infancy. "We considered multiple well ...

For generations, the Big Bang has stood as the definitive origin story of the universe — an explosive moment from which time, ...

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, or SPHEREx to use its ...

Researchers propose a new theory for the origin of dark matter, the invisible substance thought to give the universe its shape and structure. Their mathematical models show that dark matter could have ...

Dark Universe examines the invisible dark matter underlying galaxies that, together with dark energy, accounts for that other 95 percent of the universe’s total energy and mass. Narrated by ...

A rupture in the crust of a highly magnetized neutron star, shown here in an artist’s ... the universe and neutron star mergers happen too late in the universe's history to explain the earliest ...