"There is a growing chasm between theory and observation related to the early universe, which presents compelling questions ...

Here are six of NASA Hubble Space Telescope’s most iconic deep-space images, showcasing spiral galaxies, barred galaxies and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has pushed the edge of the observable universe deeper into the past, revealing a galaxy whose ...

Astronomers have spotted a mysteriously mature “baby cluster” of galaxies in the early universe, scarcely a billion years ...

Dark matter doesn't absorb or give off light so scientists can't study it directly. But they can observe how its gravity warps and bends the star stuff around it.

This idea is called the big bang model—which is an unfortunate name because it brings to mind a cosmos expanding like an ...

NASA confirms galaxy MoM-z14 observed by the James Webb Space Telescope formed 280 million years after the Big Bang using ...

Scientists are now certain that James Webb will break every such record until the earliest observable light is eventually ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected the most distant galaxy ever observed, MoM-z14, offering new insight into star formation and galaxy growth in the early universe ...

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand the mysterious dark matter holding the universe together.

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...

Deep in the digital bedrock of 35 years of Hubble observation archives, a new AI tool has uncovered more than 800 previously ...