A telescope tasked with making the largest-ever map of the universe has confirmed a harsh, if unsurprising, truth: Nothing lasts forever — not cold November rain, or even the cosmos itself. Using a ...

A team of researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope has produced the most detailed map of dark matter to date.

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 ...

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What if everything scientists ever thought about the universe’s earliest chemical reactions was wrong? Recent tests have turned decades of theory on its head, showing that the first molecular ...

Researchers have now seen the formation of three of the earliest galaxies in the universe, more than 13 billion years ago. The sensational discovery contributes important knowledge about the universe.

NASA's new SPHEREx observatory has released its first all-sky cosmic map. This map uses 102 infrared wavelengths to reveal the universe in unprecedented detail. Scientists can now study cosmic ...

Was planetary formation different during the early universe than today? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Researchers led by the University of Tsukuba present computer simulations that capture the complex dynamics of elusive neutrinos left over from the Big Bang Current simulations of cosmic structure ...

Researchers are studying how hospitable our universe is to creating life. It’s related to the density of dark energy, which impacts star formation and the chances of life forming. The idea is that ...