Astronomers have recently uncovered an extraordinary star, SDSS J0715-7334, which may be the most “pristine” object ever discovered. Located in the halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud, this star offers ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, a cornerstone of modern astronomy, has been providing breathtaking images and invaluable data for ...

Even before the first stars lit up the Universe, the Cosmos was not the cold place most researchers once imagined. New ...

The gravitational lensing that causes this rare phenomenon cannot be explained solely by looking at observable ...

According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying photons in the early cosmic ...

Primordial magnetic fields, billions of times weaker than a fridge magnet, may have left lasting imprints on the Universe.

The James Webb Space Telescope does not observe things like a regular camera that we would have on our cell phones. Instead, ...

What is the biggest object in the universe? Learn more about the biggest objects in the universe, including galaxies, galaxy ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

Was planetary formation different during the early universe than today? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Part of the reason scientists have settled on the Big Bang theory as the best explanation of how the Universe came into being is because of an 'afterglow' it emits – but a new study suggests we may ...

A new symposium is coming to Aspen and you might walk out with a different view on how the universe was created than the one you had when you walked in. The origin of the cosmos and other heady topics ...