Astronomers say a fleeting burst of energy from deep space may be the earliest supernova ever observed. The discovery is ...

James Webb has spotted mysterious little red dots in the early universe that may actually be hidden black holes, challenging ...

While the James Webb Space Telescope provides a window into the ancient universe, SkyMapper focuses on the present by ...

When analyzing early universe data, the Standard Model of Cosmology suggests that the universe should be more “clumpy” that ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A mysterious reddish object that formed only 90 million years after the Big Bang was observed by the James Webb Space Telescope. If it is a galaxy, ...

In a world that often measures itself in days, years, decades and centuries, a second seems insignificant. But a lot can happen in an instant. It takes a lightning bolt just 30 microseconds to strike ...

Astronomers use powerful telescopes, often housed at observatories, to peer into the farthest depths of our universe. To do this successfully, observatories often have to be placed at high elevations, ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...