When NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches in October 2026, it won't just be peering into the distant universe to ...

A monster galaxy from the early universe shows that the cosmos was rich with oxygen when it was only less than 3% of its ...

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” Carl Sagan once warned a maxim now resonating through telescopes worldwide as astronomers grapple with a mind-bending new discovery. The James ...

Few ideas in modern science have reshaped our understanding of reality more profoundly than space-time—the interwoven fabric ...

In a first, scientists have recreated the formation of the first ever molecules in the universe to learn more about early ...

Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has potentially identified 300 ancient objects, possibly early galaxies formed shortly ...

Deep-field images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed 300 unusually energetic early galaxy candidates, offering ...

In one new theory, it is possible that dark matter exists in a mirror universe where there are only dark versions of forces ...

The interactive online map, created using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, details some 800,000 galaxies across a vast cosmic distance. Scrolling and zooming in can take users some 13. ...

If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Why is space so dark despite all of the stars in the universe? – Nikhil, age 15, New Delhi ...

In the 1999 science-fiction film, Neo discovers that the universe is a simulation. Warner Bros/Village Roadshow Pictures/Kobal / Shutterstock Gravity plays many roles in space, including the ...