The galaxy MoM-z14 dates back to 280 million years after the big bang, and the prevalence of such early galaxies is puzzling ...

When the JWST came to life and began observations, one of its first jobs was to gaze back in time at the early universe. The ...

Structures known as "zippers" and "twisters" in the early universe may explain why dwarf galaxies tend to line up with each ...

The "afterglow" of the universe is an important piece of evidence for the Big Bang. This background radiation also provides ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from the James Webb Space telescope (JWST) in an area of the sky called COSMOS ...

which are known to have been the first galaxies to form in the universe's infancy. "We considered multiple well-established properties of massive early-type (elliptical) galaxies, and without ...

Dark matter, though invisible, weighs heavily on how we understand the universe. Its gravity sculpts galaxies, holds clusters ...

Through a citizen science project called Galaxy Zoo, volunteers can help astronomers analyze over 500,000 James Webb Space ...

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, or SPHEREx to use its ...

Researchers suggest the universe's background radiation has been overestimated, potentially challenging the standard model of ...