Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling ...

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

UChicago-led study analyzes massive galaxy clusters mapped by the Dark Energy Survey, offers new way to probe cosmic laws ...

A star found in the Large Magellanic Cloud is remarkably unpolluted by heavier elements, suggesting it is descended from the ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...

The younger black hole, the product of a cataclysmic cosmic event known as a black hole merger, was first spotted in 2019. Now, about 6 years later, a team of international researchers led by the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope, launched in 2022, has discovered something that may shatter current theories about the universe's early development. The new result does not affect the big bang theory, ...