Our universe does host life, but another one might be even better suited for life. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers are studying how hospitable our universe is to ...

A telescope tasked with making the largest-ever map of the universe has confirmed a harsh, if unsurprising, truth: Nothing lasts forever — not cold November rain, or even the cosmos itself. Using a ...

An international team of astronomers, led by Weichen Wang of the University of Milan, Italy, discovered a massive and ...

An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École ...

What if everything scientists ever thought about the universe’s earliest chemical reactions was wrong? Recent tests have turned decades of theory on its head, showing that the first molecular ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming stars at an intense rate from collapsing clouds of dust. Reported in ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered an ancient galaxy named MoM-z14, offering ...

Earlier this year, Euclid—a European telescope tasked to create the largest 3D map of the universe—sent back troves of cosmic data from deep space. Astronomers have since been hard at work picking ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected the most distant galaxy ever observed, MoM-z14, offering new insight into star formation and galaxy growth in the early universe ...

In a first, scientists have recreated the formation of the first ever molecules in the universe to learn more about early star formation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

In the early universe, astronomers found a rare light that breaks the rules of how black holes grow. Researchers from Waseda ...

Now, researchers in Switzerland and the U.K. have homed in on one particular aspect of this equation to contemplate how a crucial component of our universe affects star formation and, by extension, ...