Scientists have discovered a galaxy as it was 13 billion years ago, 800 million years after the Big Bang. It contains possible evidence of the universe's first stars and is one of the most chemically ...

Seen just 800 million years after the big bang, an object called LAP1-B is a galactic building block that seems to hold some ...

Scientists found one of the earliest known slow-spinning galaxies, challenging long-standing ideas about how massive galaxies ...

Astronomers at the University of California, Riverside announced on May 11 that they have produced the most detailed map of ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted something that shouldn’t exist—at least not so early in the ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have created the clearest map yet of the universe’s “cosmic web” — the enormous hidden structure that connects galaxies across space. By analyzing ...

Unexpected cosmic find: Webb identified an early-universe galaxy with no rotation, a trait normally seen in much older systems. Challenging galaxy models: The discovery contradicts expectations that ...

Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity’s cosmic home for a very, very long time. Our understanding of the future of the ...