For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting enormous black holes in the early universe that defy all ...

Solar storms are eruptions that release some of the energy stored in the sun's strong magnetic field. These can create ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month brings us a scene from the distant universe. Pictured here ...

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a beautiful barred spiral galaxy, but we will never see what it looks like from the outside. It is too big, and we are too deeply inside it. This limitation results in ...

It seems that in the last few years, we have been collecting a lot of objects, phenomena, and events that challenge our best understanding of how the universe and galaxies in it have evolved. Thanks ...

There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...

This early galaxy hosts as much as 30% of the oxygen of a fully developed, modern-day one. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...

We could go out with a crunch, and not a bang. Contrary to popular belief, our universe may not be constantly expanding after all. A groundbreaking study by South Korean researchers suggests that dark ...

Scientists have found a remarkably small yet bright object from the early universe that doesn’t make sense in our existing models of how stars and galaxies formed, even our own Milky Way. That means ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...