There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...

"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...

Observations using ALMA and JWST show multiple mechanisms fueling starbursts in massive early galaxies, indicating diverse formation pathways during the early Universe.

"This is a structure we've never seen before, so it could be a new class of dark object." ...

This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month brings us a scene from the distant universe. Pictured here ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see ...

A paper links dark stars to Webb telescope puzzles involving bright sources, dust-free galaxies, and early black holes.

Hints of impossibly bright, massive objects in the infant universe have forced astronomers to rethink how the first cosmic structures formed. A growing group of researchers now argues that some of ...

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting enormous black holes in the early universe that defy all ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it ...