New James Webb Space Telescope observations indicate that early galaxies were more chaotic than previous results suggested.

In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have captured the most detailed look yet at how galaxies formed just ...

Astronomers are making significant strides in detecting an ancient signal from one of the universe’s most unexplored periods.

The birth of the universe has been a question that has puzzled scientists for centuries. In a groundbreaking study published ...

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

The Milky Way contains a modest amount of alien civilizations, a new paper proposes — and there's a reason we aren't seeing ...

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

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

Ancient Greek astronomer Aristarchus was the first who presented the heliocentric system, maintaining that the Earth revolves around the Sun.