Five Year of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was launched nearly five years ago, and the first images it revealed made waves across the astronomical world. Those ...

Does dark matter follow the same laws as ordinary matter? The mystery of this invisible and hypothetical component of our ...

A new international study has provided one of the clearest signs yet that dark matter—not a change in gravity—is responsible for the mysterious way galaxies spin. By studying some of the smallest and ...

One of those ground-based telescopes is the Rubin Observatory, named after famed astronomer Vera Rubin. Unlike other ...

Study finds dark matter may follow the same laws as ordinary matter on cosmic scales, though unknown forces could still be at play in this abundant, unseen substance.

The very first generation of stars, called Population III stars, are mostly expected to be too distant to see directly – but ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how galaxies formed in the early universe.

Dark energy and black holes are two of the most mysterious topics when it comes to space, but they might actually be linked. And causing the universe to expand.

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed a new way to investigate dark matter by studying faint radio waves from the Universe’s earliest era, known as the cosmic dark ages. Their research ...

If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black hole.