The discovery made by a large research team challenges the existing models of the universe.

A newly discovered jellyfish galaxy, seen as it existed 8.5 billion years ago, is challenging assumptions about conditions in the early universe. Astrophysicists at the University of Waterloo have ide ...

The earliest black holes in the universe may not have disappeared from Hawking radiation after all, new research hints. Instead, they fed on the energy of the ancient cosmos to grow supermassive.

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope’s final data release confirms a major cosmic discrepancy and rules out many attempted solutions.

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Years before she was even sure the James Webb Space Telescope would successfully launch, Christina Eilers started planning a conference ...

Researchers believe that our universe began with the Big Bang about 13 billion years ago, and that soon after that event, matter began to form as small dust grains and gases. How the first stars ...

A UK startup wants to build a cosmic radio station in the Moon’s orbit to listen to radio waves from the early universe. Blue Skies Space has secured a contract from the Italian Space Agency to design ...

A "dead" galaxy believed to have existed 700 million years after the Big Bang is stirring up a lot of concerns in the astronomy community right now. According to observations made with the James Webb ...

Astronomers have discovered the longest radio jet so far in the early universe, spanning 200,000 light-years. Credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / M. Garlick illustration Scientists have found a quasar ...

Cosmologist L Sriramkumar said gravitational waves could help scientists understand what happened just fractions of a second after the Big Bang ...