Astronomers are closer than ever to working out how the biggest galaxies in the cosmos grew so quickly before dying.

We are the Universe trying to understand itself. How, and why, did we come to be? Why does the Universe take the shape it ...

By incorporating both elements, the simulation provides a new foundation for studying and modeling ordinary and dark ...

Astronomers have discovered a group of dwarf galaxies with distinct features that challenge predictions made by the ...

Peculiar James Webb Space Telescope observations seem to show gargantuan black holes in the earliest moments of the universe. New research may explain how they formed, thanks to primordial "seeds".

Back in the 1960s, Frank Drake, an American astrophysicist and astrobiologist, proposed an equation aimed at estimating the ...

Three ultramassive galaxies found by the James Webb Space Telescope have astronomers reconsidering how galaxies grew so ...

Researchers have discovered three ultra-massive galaxies from the universe's first billion years, challenging existing models of star formation. These galaxies, identified with the James Webb Space ...

The universe just got a whole lot bigger—or at least in the world of computer simulations, that is. In early November, ...