The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest and most powerful space telescope built to date. Since it was launched in December 2021 it has provided groundbreaking insights. These include ...

This gas led to the formation of stars and expansion of galaxies during the early stages of the Universe. A new study by an ...

A 13-billion-year-old secret about our Universe and and the time of its origin was uncovered, revealing evidence that could ...

The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles Steinhardt suspects a few pages are missing. Either the universe has been playing ...

Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is already providing new insights into this question. One of the ...

What if everything scientists ever thought about the universe’s earliest chemical reactions was wrong? Recent tests have turned decades of theory on its head, showing that the first molecular ...

Look at this new radio image covered with dots, each of which is a distant galaxy! The brightest spots are galaxies that are powered by supermassive black holes and shine bright in radio light. But ...

Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby star. Also called molecular clouds, these regions of space can be massive, ...

Researchers have now seen the formation of three of the earliest galaxies in the universe, more than 13 billion years ago. The sensational discovery contributes important knowledge about the universe.

Was planetary formation different during the early universe than today? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Galaxies in the universe today have come a long way from the first structures that emerged after the Big Bang. Galaxies like our own Milky Way are composed of hundreds of billions of stars these days, ...

The formation of the first, or Population III, stars marked a pivotal epoch in cosmic history. Emerging in dark matter minihalos at redshifts of around 20–30, these metal-free objects arose from the ...