"There is a growing chasm between theory and observation related to the early universe, which presents compelling questions ...

What: New analyses using early observations from the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission examine how galaxy mergers ...

How space telescopes capture distant galaxies using infrared imaging, precision optics, and astronomy technology beyond Earth's atmosphere.

A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...

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New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

Stuart Jefferies, Georgia State University professor of physics and astronomy, along with students and international space scientists, have taken up the challenge to find lifeforms across the two ...

Astronomers have obtained their most detailed look yet at young galaxies in the early universe using the James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...

Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the researchers identified an ongoing merger event of at least ...

In a world that often measures itself in days, years, decades and centuries, a second seems insignificant. But a lot can happen in an instant. It takes a lightning bolt just 30 microseconds to strike ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected the most distant galaxy ever observed, MoM-z14, offering new insight into star formation and galaxy growth in the early universe ...

Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence on the formation of stars, galaxies and planets. The research, including ...