Primordial magnetic fields, billions of times weaker than a fridge magnet, may have left lasting imprints on the Universe.

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed 'inside-out' star formation in a galaxy just 700 million years after the Big Bang ...

The James Webb Space Telescope does not observe things like a regular camera that we would have on our cell phones. Instead, ...

The star-forming region called Sagittarius B2 contains half of the galactic center's stars, yet only 10% of the gas.

Today, let's talk about some of the perplexing phenomena in the universe. The universe is vast, hiding countless galaxies, ...

Research using 250,000 simulations and observations shows early Universe magnetic fields were incredibly weak, yet still ...

Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is already providing new insights into this question. One of the ...

Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, ...

Astronomers have spotted for the first time a trio of supermassive galaxies that were already fully formed in the first billion years of the universe’s existence. These scarlet star-makers — ...

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Look at this new radio image covered with dots, each of which is a distant galaxy! The brightest spots are galaxies that are powered by supermassive black holes and shine bright in radio light. But ...

Was planetary formation different during the early universe than today? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...