Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Across cosmic history, powerful forces have acted on matter, reshaping the universe into an increasingly complex web of structures. Now, new research led by Joshua Kim and Mathew Madhavacheril at the ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it -- the flickering star is 2.2 million ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's ancient "little red dot" galaxies have been seen as a sign of "broken cosmology." Feeding ...

The James Webb telescope was designed, in part, to hunt for the universe's first galaxies. Those galaxies are so distant from us that the expansion of the cosmos has shifted their light into the ...

Edwin Hubble's discovery of the expanding universe transformed cosmology, revealing countless galaxies and laying the ...

January is officially underway, and the previous year is fading in the rearview. It's going to be an interesting year ahead to say the least...but one thing we ...

This meant the whole universe was expanding, allowing calculations that ... established both the true scale of the universe, and its age at around 14 billion years. The nearest stars are hundreds ...

Space exploration also helps us understand the building blocks of the universe by studying cosmic phenomena like black holes, ...