New research suggests that primordial black holes could have played an important role in the formation of the universe's ...

Immediately after the Big Bang, which occurred around 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was dominated by unimaginably high ...

A team of scientists has proposed a groundbreaking new theory on the Universe's origins, offering a fresh, radical take on ...

To learn about the star-formation history of the universe, we need to look back in time. Galaxies throughout the universe have been forming stars for the past 13 billion years.

“We’re finding star formation in the early universe is much more complicated than we thought,” added Rieke. These results are being reported at the 242nd meeting of the American Astronomical ...

With a central bulge consisting of yellow stars resembling the slightly off-center yolk of an egg fried sunny-side up, NGC 2276 is yet another example of an asymmetric galaxy. Scientists believe this ...

For this new study, astronomers used NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to verify Hubble’s 20-year-old findings with the goal of better understanding if conditions in the early universe ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered dormant galaxies with a wide range of masses in ...

These observations from JWST agree with our current understanding of cosmology — the scientific discipline that aims to explain the universe — and of galaxy formation. But they also reveal ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation.