"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...

"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky ...

A recent study provides answers to three seemingly disparate yet pressing cosmic dawn puzzles. Specifically, the authors show how dark stars could help explain the unexpected discovery of "blue ...

Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unexpected features in the early universe, including ...

Three billion years after the Big Bang, a massive galaxy already looked like it had run out of time. It spun in a calm, ...

The neural network approach uses multiple or “deep” layers that learn to identify increasingly complex features in data. The ...

A paper links dark stars to Webb telescope puzzles involving bright sources, dust-free galaxies, and early black holes.

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

MeerKAT radio telescope discovers 49 hidden galaxies in less than three hours, revealing how much of the nearby universe ...

New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, and the early universe.