The Universe presents an extraordinary level of balance that has fascinated scientists and thinkers for centuries. From the ...

If even a few of these objects turn out to be what we think they are, our discovery could challenge current ideas about how galaxies formed in the early universe,” said Haojing Yan, a University of ...

While there's no shortage of mysteries surrounding the formation of the universe, scientists may have figured out the answer ...

Hubble reveals star formation secrets in galaxy NGC 2835 using H-alpha detection to map stellar nurseries with surgical ...

In a first, scientists have recreated the formation of the first ever molecules in the universe to learn more about early ...

Webb Telescope has spotted 300 unusually bright objects in the early universe, challenging old theories of galaxy formation.

Researchers are using supercomputer simulations grounded in Einstein’s relativity to test scenarios about what may have ...

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

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

“We’re finding star formation in the early universe is much more complicated than we thought,” added Rieke. These results are being reported at the 242nd meeting of the American Astronomical ...

The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles Steinhardt suspects a few pages are missing. Either the universe has been ...

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