When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began operations, one of its earliest surveys was of galaxies that existed during ...

This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has ushered in an exciting new era of astronomy, unveiling galaxies that existed in the very early Universe. Among the most intriguing of its discoveries are the ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

A new collage from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals eight dazzling examples of gravitational lensing.

A controversial prediction about black holes and the expansion force of the universe could explain a cosmology mystery ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and that black holes appeared later. But some have proposed that it went the other ...

Galaxy rotation curves have been confounding astronomers for decades. Stars on the peripheries of galaxies rotate faster than visible matter can account for.

New research from Johns Hopkins University and an international team of scientists suggests that two competing theories for ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...