What was the universe like in the first few hundreds of millions of years after it came into existence? How did the first stars and galaxies form? Those are questions that astronomers now have a ...

While there's no shortage of mysteries surrounding the formation of the universe, scientists may have figured out the answer ...

Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the ...

Astronomers may have uncovered the origins of the mysterious “little red dots,” some of the strangest galaxies seen in the ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...

New research suggests that primordial black holes created during the Big Bang could have played a major role in forming the ...

To determine when water first formed in the universe, Latif and his colleagues used numerical models to trace the life cycles of two first-generation stars: one was 13 times heavier than our sun ...

In the young universe, black holes may have formed first Findings pose a possible answer to long-standing question of when the black holes at galactic centers formed.

Researchers at MIT and Harvard have created the most accurate model yet of how our universe formed, and you can watch it right here in the beautiful, trippy video below.

Take a look at a wide variety of galaxies in the Universe, and you'll find a vastly different set of stories. The largest ones are giant ellipticals, many of which haven't formed any new stars ...