Found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, these massive objects are upending astronomers’ timeline for how early ...

Recent research has unveiled a troubling and persistent mystery at the heart of modern cosmology: the universe is expanding ...

Astronomers have struggled with finding ultra-faint dwarf galaxies far enough from the Milky Way's influence, making these ...

When we turn to “complex” extraterrestrial life or “intelligent” aliens, our results were 67.4 percent agreement, and 58.2 ...

Over 40 stars in a galaxy billions of light-years away were photographed, offering a glimpse into an era when the universe ...

An international team led by astronomers at Leiden University has shown in laboratory experiments that sulfur can bind with ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is much larger than the Hubble and instead of orbiting the Earth, operates from a stationary ...

Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...

However, there is still a great deal we don't know about the universe. To put this into context, the "normal" matter around us that makes up stars, planets, moons, asteroids, animals, tables ...

The blazar, named J0410–0139, is located about 12.9 billion light-years away at the center of a galaxy. This makes it the ...

A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some ...

Astronomers have detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery is the most distant ...