Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

In the early universe, moments after the Big Bang and cosmic inflation, clusters of exotic, massive particles could have ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing supermassive black hole in the infant universe. Existing just 570 million years after ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

A UK startup wants to build a cosmic radio station in the Moon’s orbit to listen to radio waves from the early universe. Blue Skies Space has secured a contract from the Italian Space Agency to design ...

"Precision in these measurements is critical, as even subtle discrepancies could signal deviations from the model — ...

Space is packed with all sorts of weird and unexpected stuff, but this humongous, spinning string-thing raises a whole new ...