Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of international researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of gigantic ...

Astronomers detected a powerful cosmic flash from a star that exploded when the universe was just 5% of its current age, 13 ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

Cosmic dawn galaxies seen by JWST reveal hidden clues about dark matter and keep rival theories about its true nature alive.

Indian astronomers have identified a surprisingly mature, Milky Way-like galaxy from the universe’s early era. Named ...

Texas Tech assistant professor Elias Aydi led an international team of astronomers in publishing new findings on how stellar explosions, called novae, unfold. Using a high-resolution imaging technique ...

The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose ...

Supernovae aren't one of the JWST's main science themes, but the perceptive telescope is full of surprises. Recently, it ...

Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected ...

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from the early cosmos.

Space communications expert, Alexandra Doten, has explained what the discovery of a gum-like substance on an asteroid 63 ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...