The upcoming launch of NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope should let astronomers see what some of the universe's first stars and galaxies looked like soon after the Big Bang.

Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

As the universe ages, it's harder and harder for material to clump together to form new galaxies and drive continued star formation. In fact, the peak of star formation passed billions of years ago.

The images of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is a fossil relic of the first light in the universe, reveal what the 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos was like just 380,000 years after the ...

A new theory promises to simplify our approach to the universe's earliest moments, but some cosmologists say further ...

According to Space.com, this new research gives credence to the theory of "Schwarzschild cosmology," which suggests that our galaxy is inside of a black hole, which, in turn, is located inside ...

Science’s best guess at how the universe came into being includes the Big Bang followed by a moment of rapid inflationary expansion.; However, this theory left a few mysteries and quirks in its ...

The new telescope, scheduled for launch in either 2024 or 2025, "will map the entire sky to study the rapid expansion of the universe after the Big Bang, the composition of young planetary systems ...

Latest James Webb data hints at new physics in Universe’s expansion These latest findings further support the Hubble Space Telescope's prior expansion rate measurements.

Are we living in “The Matrix” in real life? In the 1999 science-fiction film, Neo discovers that the universe is a simulation — but one scientist believes that the idea isn’t all fiction.

A new collaborative project dubbed the COSMOS-Web field has compiled the most comprehensive cosmic map ever, including images of the early universe as far back as 13.5 billion years. SUBSCRIBE LOG IN ...

The universe is poised to die much faster than previously thought, according to new research by Dutch scientists. But there's no great need to panic. We still have 10 to the power of 78 years ...