Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has detected a new grand-design spiral ...

The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope and next-gen radio telescopes are probing what’s known as the epoch of reionization. It holds clues to the first stars and galaxies, and perhaps the nature ...

Stunning new photographs taken by Wellesley College astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have unveiled a newly ...

Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Geoff Bennett and Miles O'Brien discussed why scientists are excited ...

When it comes to particle physics, however, much of the action takes place in giant accelerators smashing particles together ...

Dark matter, an unseen yet influential component of the cosmos, continues to challenge physicists nearly a century after its effects were first noticed. Its gravitational influence, vital for ...

The cosmos began expanding with the Big Bang but then around 10 billion years later it strangely began to accelerate thanks ...

Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 ...

Astronomers just took a big step toward a better understanding of white dwarfs, a discovery that could shed light on ...

What is the universe expanding into if it’s already infinite? The universe expands by itself, not into any external space, ...

They identified the oldest known black hole, located 13 billion light-years away, and dating back 400 million years after the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a baby, Milky Way-like galaxy that formed more than 13 billion years ...