For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And ...

James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD' ...

Astronomers may have found the universe’s first stars formed after the Big Bang, using JWST data and gravitational lensing.

The Universe may not have begun with a Big Bang, but instead with a Big Bounce, according to a new theory about how the ...

As if dark energy weren't already mysterious and baffling enough, new research suggests that this unknown force may not be ...

Every event, from brewing coffee to the formation of Earth, traces back through an unbroken chain of cause and effect to the ...

Their medium was the photographic slide — thousands of them — sent to architecture schools and libraries across the country ...

Led by doctoral student Tatsuya Kotani and Professor Tomoharu Oka from Keio University, the research team measured the ...

Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that ...

A team of astrophysicists has unveiled how colossal stars thousands of times more massive than the Sun shaped the earliest ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...