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

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

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have stumbled upon a puzzling population of galaxies that look far too ...

Pictures are the key to new insights in the field of astrophysics. Such images include simulations of cosmic events, which ...

Two colliding galaxies have been found to be reorganizing their dwarf satellites, potentially solving a major conundrum ...

A new interpretation of dark energy data suggests that the mysterious force, which accelerated the early universe's expansion ...

For more than two decades, the standard model of cosmology has stood as a reliable guide to the universe. Known as Lambda Cold Dark Matter, or ΛCDM, it weaves together dark energy, dark matter, and ...

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

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...

It is one of the most tantalizing questions at the intersection of neuroscience, physics, and philosophy: are our brains merely in the universe, or are they in some sense of the universe? The ...

At MIT’s Formaggio Lab, Peña’s work may help researchers pinpoint the elusive particle’s mass—and refine the fundamental laws ...

Five hundred million years following the Big Bang, when the universe was but three percent as old as it is now, a black hole ...