To date, the formation of cosmic structures and the nature of dark energy and dark matter, two essential components of the ...

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

Astronomers say NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted the universe’s first “dark stars,” primordial bodies of ...

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

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 ...

Research using 250,000 simulations and observations shows early Universe magnetic fields were incredibly weak, yet still ...

Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so far in the early universe, one of the strangest are objects that astronomers now call "little red dots." Like the nickname ...

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