The data analysed consists of 758 nights of observations of one-eighth of the sky conducted by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) ...

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

Space is filled with a variety of objects, some blisteringly hot, some tremendously cold, but areas with little to nothing at ...

Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

Astronomers realized that a strange cloud of gas was actually a relic of the ancient universe which might help solve some of ...

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope and gravitational lensing to observe SN Eos, an ordinary supernova from the ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest the cosmos may be much older than once believed. For decades, scientists have held that the universe is about 13.8 billion years old ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with ...

China is preparing to send a new kind of eye into orbit, a space observatory built to map the cosmos with a breadth and sharpness that rivals anything flying today. The Xuntian Space Telescope, also ...

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

About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed like a contradiction in Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. Published in 1915, and already widely accepted ...