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

Scientists from Japan have revealed a new idea explaining why there is matter in the universe, while antimatter has almost ...

A newly-detected spinning galaxy filament is reshaping our understanding of cosmic structure, gas flows, and the origins of ...

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The discovery potentially transforms what we think about how the cosmic environment influences galaxies as they form.

Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025, which may ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

The key enabling tools behind the discovery are the extraordinary sensitivity of JWST and a phenomenon called gravitational ...

The JWST has spotted Alaknanda, a massive, well-formed grand-design spiral galaxy that existed just 1.5 billion years after ...

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

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

Rest assured that as everything seems to be falling apart on Earth, it also appears that the rest of the universe is on a downward trajectory, too. In new research that gauged several vital signs of ...