A cosmic leviathan stirs across the great, quiet expanse of the early universe. About 12 billion years old, a supermassive ...

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Astronomers have found a remarkably powerful jet shooting out from a black hole that formed just 3 billion years after the ...

Mizar, a star in the Big Dipper's handle, has a tiny companion. This star, Alcor, was known to the ancients. The pair was ...

A near-complete census of our interstellar neighborhood hopes to answer how stars, brown dwarfs and rogue planets form ...

New findings from the University of Bonn challenge the assumptions of the standard cosmological model. The faint "afterglow" ...

Researchers estimate that MoM z14 was created 280 million years after the Big Bang, 10 million years earlier than the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed ... and that means the light we see from the galaxy has been traveling to us practically since the Big Bang. This is also the oldest galaxy we ...

Data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of small galaxies that played a starring role in a cosmic ...

“ENTs are different beasts,” study lead author and astronomer Jason Hinkle explained in an accompanying statement. “Not only ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed yet another marvel from deep in outer space. A galaxy named MoM-z14 has taken the title of most distant galaxy the telescope has captured. It is a ...