Even before the first stars lit up the Universe, the Cosmos was not the cold place most researchers once imagined. New ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

Interstellar dust may be not just cosmic "debris", but a key carrier of amino acids, the building blocks of life. A study by ...

The gravitational lensing that causes this rare phenomenon cannot be explained solely by looking at observable ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying photons in the early cosmic ...

A new collage from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals eight dazzling examples of gravitational lensing.

To probe the mysteries of how galaxies evolve over time, scientists needed a supercomputer with out-of-this-world ...

Astronomers have recently uncovered an extraordinary star, SDSS J0715-7334, which may be the most “pristine” object ever ...

A controversial prediction about black holes and the expansion force of the universe could explain a cosmology mystery ...

Disney's Star Wars sequel trilogy did not feature the character, though canon spin-off novel Aftermath: Empire's End, which ...

A massive, rotating disk galaxy designated DLA0817g and nicknamed the "Wolfe Disk," formed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. It was discovered using ALMA, the Atacama Large ...