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

Dark matter, the invisible substance that shapes the Universe, may have had a far more dramatic beginning than scientists once believed.

Researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Université Paris-Saclay have reopened one of cosmology’s oldest ...

Imagine hearing a sound that began its journey before our galaxy even existed. That is what astronomers are doing now. They ...

Cosmologists are quietly confronting a possibility that would have sounded absurd a generation ago: the standard picture of a ...

You’ve looked up at the night sky. Maybe you’ve wondered how much you don’t know. Turns out, the scale of our ignorance about ...

Since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) went into operation, red dots in its images have puzzled researchers around the ...

Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new Type II supernova. The ...

Astronomers find galaxy Y1, a young star-forming region, revealing extreme heat just 600 million years after the Big Bang.