Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may have detected what could be the oldest galaxy ever observed, potentially reshaping our understanding of how quickly the early universe began ...

Scientists have discovered a giant black hole that they believe may have been formed in the first few microseconds after the ...

Scientists ultimately settled on a feeding black hole at the heart of a far-distant galaxy as the most likely engine for 3C 273’s ridiculous luminosity. In fact, by the 1980s astronomers were starting ...

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the ...

Near-infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope revealed five early universe galaxies merging within a large halo.

For years, scientists have worked to chart the universe’s massive structure, aiming to test key models of cosmology. These efforts also help uncover how galaxies form and change over time. While most ...

A monster galaxy from the early universe shows that the cosmos was rich with oxygen when it was only less than 3% of its present age, astronomers have found. The discovery raises questions about how ...

Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A ...

Earth and the surrounding Milky Way galaxy may be sitting inside a cosmic void—a "mysterious giant hole"—that could be speeding up the universe's expansion in our region compared to others, This is ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with ...