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

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

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

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

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

We're heading for a cold, dead universe.

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

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

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

A recent study provides answers to three seemingly disparate yet pressing cosmic dawn puzzles. Specifically, the authors show ...

The discovery of thousands more galaxies with stars ringing their main disks could help astronomers study galactic evolution ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it ...