Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

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

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, cosmic 'ghost towns,' offer new insights into the early universe and star formation.

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...