There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...

"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...

"This is a structure we've never seen before, so it could be a new class of dark object." ...

This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month brings us a scene from the distant universe. Pictured here ...

We're heading for a cold, dead universe.

Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see ...

A paper links dark stars to Webb telescope puzzles involving bright sources, dust-free galaxies, and early black holes.

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting enormous black holes in the early universe that defy all ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it ...