The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations of the early universe have unveiled a perplexing mystery: the rotation directions of most galaxies appear to be the same. Researchers from Kansas ...

A team of astronomers says it has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed — a cosmic heavyweight that formed ...

The James Webb telescope's 100-hour reexamination of one of Hubble's most iconic extragalactic images reveals extraordinary ...

"We were amazed by the fact that these observatories can detect about 100 black holes just 250 million years after the Big ...

Astronomers have discovered what is claimed to be the oldest confirmed black hole in the universe, providing a glimpse into ...

New computer simulations suggest the first magnetic fields that emerged after the Big Bang were much weaker than expected — ...

JWST and Hubble uncover JWST’s Quintet, a rare five-galaxy merger from the early universe, forming stars at a rapid rate.

Just as ocean waves shape our shores, ripples in space-time may have once set the Universe on an evolutionary path that led to the cosmos as we see it today.

Astronomers have discovered the most monstrous supermassive black hole ever. At 36 billion times more mass than our sun, it’s ...

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.