WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Observations by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory are providing ...

In a galaxy far, far away, there lie clues to the cosmic dawn—the first few hundreds of millions of years in our 13.8-billion ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has once again redefined the boundaries of cosmic observation. A recent study published via ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies could not yet exist. Two astronomers from India have identified a ...

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

Dark matter doesn't absorb or give off light so scientists can't study it directly. But they can observe how its gravity ...

Astronomers have discovered powerful magnetic fields steering gas, dust, and star formation in a dramatic galaxy merger.

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. When you purchase through links on our ...

The six-year results from the Dark Energy Survey highlight unresolved tensions in standard cosmological theory ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when all of space, time, and energy were born from a single infinitely dense ...