Using a global network of telescopes, astronomers have detected the lowest-mass dark object yet found in the universe.

Scientists using a global array of radio telescopes have detected the universe’s lowest-mass dark object by observing how it ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists make discoveries that could alter theories about the universe's origins. Scientists at the University of Missouri "looked deep into the universe ...

Researchers have found a suspected clump of dark matter lurking within the luminous halo of a well-known "Einstein ring." The ...

Astronomers have discovered a new object that could help shed light on mysterious "little red dots" that were first spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in 2022. The newfound object, ...

Astronomers have discovered the oldest and most distant black hole — a behemoth that likely formed at the dawn of the universe, more than 13 billion years ago. The black hole lies at the center of a ...

A collection of 300 unusually bright objects in deep space may contain galaxies that formed in the early universe. These objects, captured in infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion ...

Scientists have released a new study on the arXiv preprint server that catalogs the universe by mapping huge clusters of ...

A star found in the Large Magellanic Cloud is remarkably unpolluted by heavier elements, suggesting it is descended from the ...

The discovery could challenge current ideas about how galaxies formed in the early universe. Hundreds of unexpectedly energetic objects have been discovered throughout the distant universe, possibly ...