Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the ...

Astronomers at Leiden University have detected rare isotopes of carbon and oxygen in our neighboring stars for the first time ...

A monster galaxy from the early universe shows that the cosmos was rich with oxygen when it was only less than 3% of its ...

There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the ...

For decades, scientists suspected this ion played a critical role in cooling the early cosmos, helping the first gas clouds ...

A new theoretical study proposes a radical idea in the search for dark matter—using the surface of Ganymede, Jupiter’s ...

A mystery signal in space has shocked scientists, what could have been? Imagine listening to the universe, yes, as if it was ...

UW’s Institute for Data-intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology, founded in 2016 with support from the Charles and ...

For decades, scientists have puzzled over why so little sulfur appears in space, even though it is one of the most common ...

The first chemical reactions in the wake of the Big Bang have been recreated for the first time in conditions similar to ...

A team of international scientists who are part of the Cosmic Evolution Survey program (COSMOS) created and released the map of the universe Thursday, June 5. Compiled from more than 10,000 images ...