Astronomers released accurate measurements of the universe and its aspects, and the star formation peak led the universe to ...

An analysis of millions of galaxies found that the universe is barreling towards what is literally a much darker future.

The researchers used vast amounts of observational data collected by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid and Herschel space telescopes. Euclid, a telescope designed to catalog the dark universe, ...

Galaxies have been experiencing vigorous bursts of star formation from much earlier in cosmic history than previously thought, according to new observations by a Caltech-led team. These so-called ...

In the early universe, moments after the Big Bang and cosmic inflation, clusters of exotic, massive particles could have ...

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Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole ...

WASHINGTON -- A half billion years of utter blackness following the Big Bang, the theoretical start of the universe, was broken by an explosion of stars bursting into life like a fireworks finale ...

Will the universe keep existing forever? An astrophysicist explains how scientists aren’t entirely sure, but they can make ...

Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is already providing new insights into this question. One of the ...

gravitational collapse of a cloud of hydrogen and helium some 100 times more massive than the sun. “Our modeling suggests that the first star may have condensed from a protogalactic cloud into a ...

Observations in the past decade have demonstrated that extremely massive supermassive black holes were already in place when the Universe was less than 800 million years old. Supermassive black holes ...