Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

We don’t know for sure, but the answer is inextricably linked to the moment when water first materialized in the cosmos — and new simulations suggest the very first generation of stars helped form ...

Stars are the building blocks of the universe, yet their arrangement within massive galaxies remains one of astronomy’s great enigmas. Most stars today are found in spheroids—dense, bulging regions ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

Protogalaxies as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope (NASA via Courthouse News). (CN) — When astronomers started looking at new images of the deep universe obtained from the James Webb Space ...

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Some of the universe’s most massive galaxies may have formed billions of years earlier than current scientific models predict, according to surprising new research led by ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It is now thought that water first formed in space only 100 to 200 million years after the Big ...

The first stars in the universe, huge behemoths thousands of times the mass of our sun, could have formed in the blink of an eye, cosmologically speaking, after the big bang. The James Webb Space ...

As astronomers read back into the first chapters of the universe’s history, they have uncovered a horde of gigantic black holes that seem to have matured much faster than scientists thought possible.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Conceptual illustration depicting matter transitioning from a black hole to a white hole. | ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...