The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just spotted what might be some of the oldest galaxies ever to exist—basically, ...

A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...

Big Bang theory FAQs answered by an expert We asked ... and that density fluctuations from quantum mechanical predictions do not produce galaxy clusters of the right size and shape today.

Yale researchers co-authored the study uncovering “ultra-massive” galaxies formed briefly after the Big Bang, the creation of the universe. The discovery was based on observations from the James Webb ...

In the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, astronomers spotted the largest explosion in the universe consisting of energy equal to a ...

But researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian space counterparts, to zero in on a dwarf galaxy that bucked the trend, rebooting its ...

Rare ultra-faint dwarf galaxies beyond the influence of other galaxies show evidence that star formation was stifled long ago ...

SPHEREx, a new space telescope, will map galaxies, study cosmic inflation, and explore the ingredients for life. Its infrared ...