The James Webb Space Telescope has upended expectations again, revealing a massive spiral galaxy in the universe’s infancy ...

Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...

Recent observational breakthroughs are beginning to challenge the long-standing view of dark energy as unchanging. Data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument ( DESI ), an advanced survey ...

R esearchers have calculated one of the most precise estimates for the expansion rate of the universe today, and it turns out ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy from cosmic dawn is rewriting ideas about how fast the Universe built its first galaxies.

Our solar system is a passenger on a galactic rollercoaster. Part 2 reveals how the Sun, carrying Earth, orbits the Milky Way's core at 491,000 mph, completing a circuit every 230 million years. We ...

Galaxy Alaknanda challenges long-held theories of galaxy formation, which maintained that stable spiral galaxies could only ...

These gigantic structures, which contain hundreds or even thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity, offer important ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

The telescope captured near-infrared light from one of the earliest stars seen to explode in the history of the universe.

NASA’s James Webb Telescope may have detected the universe’s first stars, Pop III stars, in galaxy LAP1-B, offering a glimpse into cosmic history.

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to ...