Scientists studying one of the earliest known galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope have found that the universe's ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago ...

The ghostly ring Kýklos (from the Greek κύκλος, circle or ring) and the object WR16 both show the environment of rare and ...

Astronomers Are Baffled To Find That the Universe Is Expanding Too Fast; 'Not What We Expected' Astronomers routinely ...

A map of the CMB published by ACT researchers. Research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration has led to the ...

NASA launched a new space telescope into orbit to explore the origins of the universe. The mission will use sophisticated ...

Water may have formed less than 200 million years after the Big Bang, suggesting some conditions for life existed far earlier than previously thought.

Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences – and yet also one of the most modern. The Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg is proof of this. The researchers here decipher the mysteries of the ...

New research, published today in Nature Astronomy, found that water may have formed in the first 200 million years of the universe’s lifetime. The life-giving molecule may have been created so ...

Join astronomy professor Dr. Brian W. Mulligan for an exciting journey beyond the boundaries of our cosmic neighborhood as we uncover the methods used to find exoplanets, the incredible variety of ...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory, astronomers have observed a massive and hot galaxy cluster known as PLCKG287.0+32.9 (or PLCKG287 for short). Results of the observational campaign ...