Long ago, before galaxies formed into shapes we are familiar with today and before planets formed, the earliest stars ignited ...

Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope hint at an excess of "UB-bright" galaxies in the first 400 million years after ...

A handful of extremely massive stars, each heavier than 1,000 Suns, may have sculpted the chemistry of the oldest star ...

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

Astronomers have uncovered the most promising evidence yet for the existence of dark stars—giant cosmic objects powered by dark matter, rather than the fusion processes typically seen in stars. These ...

In the quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe, physicists are revisiting a 150-year-old theory that could illuminate ...

(Nanowerk News) A new study by MIT physicists proposes that a mysterious force known as early dark energy could solve two of the biggest puzzles in cosmology and fill in some major gaps in our ...

Was planetary formation different during the early universe than today? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Galaxies are vast systems of stars, gas, dust, and dark matter held together by gravity. They are the building blocks of the ...

One of astronomy's biggest puzzles may have been solved by a new theory that suggests the universe may rotate at an extremely slow rate. Current models suggest the universe is expanding evenly in all ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Spinning Puzzle Compare the Universe Let's learn about space in a fun way with a quiz that rotates images! By comparing photos, you can get to know the ...