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 biggest sample of galaxy groups to ever be detected has been unearthed by a team of international astronomers ...

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

The galaxy MoM-z14 dates back to 280 million years after the big bang, and the prevalence of such early galaxies is puzzling ...

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

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

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 suggest the universe's background radiation has been overestimated ... G004 shone 10,000 times brighter when it formed than it does today. These types of galaxies briefly lit up the entire ...

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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.