Astronomers may have found the universe’s first stars formed after the Big Bang, using JWST data and gravitational lensing.

James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD' ...

Astronomers have recently detected mysterious radio signals emanating from the ancient comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, capturing the ...

A Keio University team measured the cosmic microwave background temperature from 7 billion years ago at 5.13 K using ALMA, ...

A remarkable discovery in Crete has reinvigorated debate over the origins behind the ancient Greek myth of the labyrinth.

For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And ...

The Ancient Maya may have had large libraries and an advanced writing system, but very little remains today. Indeed, only ...

An analysis of feldspar crystals within the oldest magmatic rocks in Australia has provided a unique insight into Earth's ancient mantle and continents, and the early beginnings of the moon.

Water discoveries in space happen all the time. But this one’s actually a big deal, and not just because some scientists got ...

In about 5 billion years, our Sun will run out of hydrogen fuel and collapse into a dense, Earth-sized remnant called a white dwarf. Though it will no longer shine as it once did, this stellar core ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Astronomers discover a 3-billion-year-old white dwarf, LSPM J0207+3331, actively accumulationplanetary material long after its star’s death, revealing ongoing dynamics in ancient stellar remnants.