When you gaze up at the night sky, it’s easy to feel as though you're looking into an endless, empty canvas sprinkled with ...

Astronomers have sought to explain the existence of supermassive black holes forming less than a billion years after the Big Bang, a timescale incompatible with standard stellar evolution processes.

Discover seven unusual galaxies defying scientific predictions, from impossibly bright early universe objects to astrophysics ...

Scientists are now certain that James Webb will break every such record until the earliest observable light is eventually ...

Astronomers studying a distant galaxy using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found the best candidates yet for the universe’s first stars. These so-called Population III stars arose shortly ...

Curious minds wonder about the universe's stars. Scientists estimate trillions of galaxies, each with billions of stars, leading to a mind-boggling total of 10²² to 10²⁴ stars. This number, exceeding ...