While there's no shortage of mysteries surrounding the formation of the universe, scientists may have figured out the answer ...

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

For decades, astronomers have been working to explore the properties of the first generation of stars in the universe. These stars created new chemical elements, enriched the chemical composition of ...

For decades, scientists suspected this ion played a critical role in cooling the early cosmos, helping the first gas clouds ...

The researchers used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), located in the Atacama Desert of Chile, to identify this very young planet, named WISPIT 2b, which orbits a ...

The Universe presents an extraordinary level of balance that has fascinated scientists and thinkers for centuries. From the ...

These observations from JWST agree with our current understanding of cosmology — the scientific discipline that aims to explain the universe — and of galaxy formation.

Was planetary formation different during the early universe than today? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Black holes played a critical role in the formation of the early universe. However, astronomers have been debating for a long time just how critical, as the information we had about early black ...

Hubble reveals star formation secrets in galaxy NGC 2835 using H-alpha detection to map stellar nurseries with surgical ...

Astronomers have glimpsed the inner structure of a dying star in a rare kind of cosmic explosion called an "extremely ...