The distant universe might be littered with supermassive stars between 1000 and 10,000 times the mass of the sun, which could ...

Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the ...

"We really needed the sensitivity of JWST. We also needed the 100 times magnification from gravitational lensing from a ...

Whether the Universe will 'end' at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity's cosmic ...

Astronomers have recently identified a cosmic structure so vast that it challenges our understanding of the universe’s scale.

Between the end of cosmic inflation and the formation of the first atoms, the universe experienced a fleeting but pivotal era ...

A new study suggests that during a potential phase of primordial matter domination, particle interactions may have led to the formation of the universe’s first compact cosmic objects. Less than a ...

Astronomers working hard at NASA have found a star that could be older than the universe. But is that even possibile? This ...

The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

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