Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ancient and faraway galaxy that provides evidence that an ...

"We report the discovery of one of the most distant galaxies known to date," astrophysicist Joris Witstok told Newsweek.

Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in the early ...

Primordial black holes could inhabit the modern-day cosmos, making them responsible for the phenomenon of dark matter, ...

and dark energy. This explains the existence and pattern of the cosmic microwave background, the lingering echo of the Big Bang, and the distribution of galaxies. These findings also show that the ...

After having cooled down sufficiently, there was a period called the cosmic dark ages when the infant universe ... "The universe, after the Big Bang, was a soup of hydrogen, helium and dark ...

The universe is thought to have experienced a rapid and exponential expansion in a fraction of a second after the Big Bang. After having cooled down sufficiently, there was a period called the cosmic ...

It wasn’t until 380,000 years after the Big Bang when particles began to combine, allowing light to travel freely and ending the cosmic dark ages. The cooled remnant of the first light that ...

Dark energy, the mysterious force thought to ... including looking at the lingering radiation from after the Big Bang, exploding stars called supernovae and how gravity distorts the light of ...

A tiny red speck has set a date on an important era in the Universe's early history and given astronomers a surprising insight into the "cosmic dawn".

Experts have unveiled the most detailed images yet of the universe’s infancy, capturing light that traveled for more than 13 ...