There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...

If dark stars existed, they would have been capable of forming in the universe before ordinary stars could have formed. When ...

“The Universe will just get colder and deader from now on. The amount of dust in galaxies and their dust temperatures have ...

MeerKAT radio telescope discovers 49 hidden galaxies in less than three hours, revealing how much of the nearby universe ...

A paper links dark stars to Webb telescope puzzles involving bright sources, dust-free galaxies, and early black holes.

Scientists at the University of Missouri have identified a small group of unusual objects in the early universe. Using NASA's ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unexpected features in the early universe, including ...

Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old ...

A recent study provides answers to three seemingly disparate yet pressing cosmic dawn puzzles. Specifically, the authors show ...

The discovery of thousands more galaxies with stars ringing their main disks could help astronomers study galactic evolution ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it ...