The James Webb Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to spot a galaxy so distant that it sends us an image of the cosmos just 280 million years after the Big Bang. This observation thus offers ...

Dark matter doesn’t emit, absorb, or reflect light. It’s invisible but supposedly makes up 85% of the universe’s mass. Because it’s so abundant, astronomers believe it should explain many unsolved ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

Faint structures play a crucial role in cosmic development, and scientists are only just beginning to grasp their full extent ...

A multifractal spectrum called a weighted Cantor set model can describe how galaxies cluster, which is similar to other ...

Recent research has uncovered a barred spiral galaxy formed 11.5 billion years ago, making it one of the earliest known galaxies that contains a stellar bar. The research was supported by Yingjie ...

COSMOS-Web was the largest General Observer program selected by the James Webb Space Telescope for Cycle 1. The team, led by RIT Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe, has publicly released its full ...

Where are the smallest galaxies? A recent study suggests that there may not be as nearly as many of them in the early universe as there should be, which has big implications for the story of how our ...

You probably imagine NASA hunting for habitable planets, blue worlds, and earth-like atmospheres. Especially signs of life.

That the universe is expanding has been known for almost a hundred years now, but how fast? The exact rate of that expansion ...

"JADES-ID1 is giving us new evidence that the universe was in a huge hurry to grow up." ...