For more than a decade, astronomers quietly watched the most precise clocks in the cosmos, waiting for a barely perceptible ...

This stunning image reveals a distant galaxy cluster teeming with energy: galaxies shine in visible light (white), ghostly red clouds unveil a newly discovered radio mini-halo—the most distant ever ...

Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the researchers identified an ongoing merger event of at least ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the existence of a bright galaxy that formed just 280 million years after the ...

Discover seven unusual galaxies defying scientific predictions, from impossibly bright early universe objects to astrophysics ...

For the three astrophysicists who won the Nobel Prize in physics today (Oct. 4), it was only a matter of when, not if, they would get the prize, their peers said. Their discovery that the universe's ...

NASA has found something that will help understand how the cosmos was when everything barely started. Imagine someone screams in a far away place and that ...

This stunning image reveals a distant galaxy cluster teeming with energy: galaxies shine in visible light (white), ghostly red clouds unveil a newly discovered radio mini-halo—the most distant ever ...

For nearly three decades, astronomers have interpreted the faint luminosity of certain distant explosive stars as a sign of the Universe's runaway expansion. An inexorable acceleration, attributed to ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...