Cosmic time machine alert! NASA’s “deep field” images are like peeking into the universe’s baby photos—multiple long exposures stitched together by Webb or Hubble to reveal ancient galaxies too faint ...

Far beyond the familiar stars and galaxies lies a place so empty, so vast, and so haunting that it challenges our very understanding of the cosmos. Known as the Bootes Void, this massive cosmic desert ...

Small, compact galaxies seen in the early universe have puzzled astronomers – finding these unusual objects closer to home ...

Just as ocean waves shape our shores, ripples in space-time may have once set the Universe on an evolutionary path that led ...

A team of scientists led by Raul Jimenez, a researcher at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), ...

The very first stars in the universe may have been much smaller than scientists thought — potentially explaining why we can't ...

The theorists predict that the beginning of the end will be in about 10 billion years — less than the present age of the ...

The infant universe was nothing like the cosmos we see today. Early on, it was dark: no stars and no galaxies, just a simmering celestial soup. But hundreds of millions of years after the big bang ...

The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly? Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explains ...

It’s not always easy to see the night sky in the city, but the Adler Planetarium’s Doane Observatory offers Chicagoans a rare ...

The release gives the largest look at the deep universe ever, providing data for scientists to make future discoveries. Already, scientists have found a treasure trove of early galaxies. COSMOS-Web ...