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 ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...

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

Astronomers have observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral galaxy in the early Universe and found that it has ...

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 ...

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

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

Researchers propose a new theory for the origin of dark matter, the invisible substance thought to give the universe its ...

The expiration date for the universe is now sooner than experts previously thought, new research suggests. But don't cancel your summer vacation, because it's still trillions of years in the future.

Because the new catalog includes observations that span from one billion to twelve billion years ago, scientists can compare some of the earliest structures in the universe with relatively modern ...