"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky ...

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

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...

A recent study provides answers to three seemingly disparate yet pressing cosmic dawn puzzles. Specifically, the authors show how dark stars could help explain the unexpected discovery of "blue ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unexpected features in the early universe, including ...

A paper links dark stars to Webb telescope puzzles involving bright sources, dust-free galaxies, and early black holes.

"This is a structure we've never seen before, so it could be a new class of dark object." ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered traces of colossal, short‑lived stars that blazed out in the universe’s first few hundred million years, leaving behind only their violent signatures.

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NASA released exciting information on Thursday regarding the discovery of "monster stars" and "spiral galaxies." Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers were able to identify nine "monster stars ...