This theory could finally solve one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology.
The record-breaking galaxy is revealing secrets about the first stars and their unexpected chemical fingerprints.
By mapping the brightest explosions in the universe, scientists may have uncovered a megastructure that defies our understanding of how the cosmos is built.
Astronomers using the Webb Space Telescope spotted the gigantic—and growing—primordial galaxy.
A telescope in Chile captured the earliest cosmic time humans have been able to observe so far.
A new study lends credence to the radical idea that our universe sits within a black hole.
Water was present just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang, according to a new study, shaking up the timeline of planetary evolution.
The options become even more complicated if you consider time as a dimension.
New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.
The structure is nearly 600 million light-years from Earth and is an early display of the nascent dark matter telescope's power.
The giant jet flips the script on the origins of these structures, which were once thought to be linked only to extremely large black holes.
Researchers found far more hidden black holes than previously known, indicating plenty of behemoths lurking in thick clouds of gas and dust.
Perplexing data in the early 2000s raised questions about how planetary formation began in the universe, and new data from Webb provides some answers.
An ancient black hole had to take it easy after gorging itself on its local galaxy, offering hints at the exotic objects' evolution.
From black hole jets to auroras on Mars, this year had plenty of astrophysical wonder.
Delving into the behaviors of the Sun and protecting humans at home and beyond are top priorities, according to the National Academies.
The Frontier supercomputer's calculations provide a new foundation for simulating the universe's conventional physics, but also the enigmatic behaviors and properties of dark matter.
The Infinite Monkey Theorem is legit, but the universe will die before any simian could reprise the Bard's poems and prose.
The roughly four-billion-year-old system consists of a black hole and two orbiting stars—a configuration that's never been seen before.
A gravitational lens tripled the event in the night sky and helped astronomers measure the rate at which the universe is expanding.
