In our favorite space image of the week, NASA's Juno spacecraft got an unprecedented look at Jupiter's volcanic moon Io from just 930 miles away. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory helped to build a ...

A monster galaxy from the early universe shows that the cosmos was rich with oxygen when it was only less than 3% of its ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists make discoveries that could alter theories about the universe's origins. Scientists at the University of Missouri "looked deep into the universe ...

To estimate distances, the team analyzed the objects' brightnesses across multiple wavelengths to infer redshift, age and ...

The post Oldest Galaxy That Formed 280 million Years After The Big Bang Has Been Identified And Proves Yet Again How ...

“Using newer mathematical tools, my colleague and I have demonstrated a new theory that may accurately describe the universe. Instead of basing the theory on the warping of space and time, we ...

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

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted three galaxies forming when the universe was about only 400 million to 600 million years old.

The universe suddenly looks a lot more crowded, thanks to a deep-sky census assembled from surveys taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories. Astronomers came to the ...

The upcoming launch of NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope should let astronomers see what some of the universe's first stars and galaxies looked like soon after the Big Bang.