The coldest and densest molecular gas clouds in the interstellar medium can have temperatures of 10 K (-505 °F/-263 °C), ...

If dark stars existed, they would have been capable of forming in the universe before ordinary stars could have formed. When ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...

James Webb has spotted mysterious little red dots in the early universe that may actually be hidden black holes, challenging ...

To explore this long-standing mystery, an international team of scientists formed a group known as the Collaboration for ...

A USF professor and research team are using two NASA grants and the Hubble Space Telescope to test the mathematical model of ...

China is preparing to send a new kind of eye into orbit, a space observatory built to map the cosmos with a breadth and ...

For centuries, humans have looked to the stars and wondered about the universe’s vastness, shape, and structure. One question that has long persisted is the concept of the center of the universe. Is ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope now think the "little red dots" spotted in the early universe could be a new kind of space object. They call it a "black hole star." Credit: T.

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

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), detecting a supernova—the explosive death of a massive star—at an ...