A powerful new survey has dramatically expanded humanity’s view of the cosmos by identifying more than 7,000 confirmed galaxy ...

COSMOS-Web was the largest General Observer program selected by the James Webb Space Telescope for Cycle 1. The team, led by RIT Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe, has publicly released its full ...

How these extreme objects formed in the earliest years of the universe—when the cosmos was less than a billion years old—has ...

Probing the dawn of the cosmos for clues to how the first galaxies and supermassive black holes formed is no easy feat ...

A consistent pattern in the deep universe Lior Shamir, an associate professor of computer science at Kansas State University, ...

Astronomers are closer than ever to working out how the biggest galaxies in the cosmos grew so quickly before dying. The formation of galaxies in the universe should follow a fairly simple path. It ...

If we look on large enough scales, matter should be distributed evenly, with no preferred direction within the cosmos. This is known as the cosmological principle.

The mission’s first large set of survey data is a treasure trove for clues about the history of the universe. Reading time 2 minutes The Euclid space telescope is on a mission to map more than one ...

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most powerful telescope humans have ever sent into space. It took 30 years to ...

Dozens of fugitive stars were caught fleeing a dense star cluster in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The swarm of speeding stars could mean that such runaways had a bigger influence on cosmic ...