When analyzing early universe data, the Standard Model of Cosmology suggests that the universe should be more “clumpy” that ...

Donald G. York, an astronomer with the University of Chicago who helped revolutionize the field as a co-founder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and made pioneering contributions to the study of the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has detected the most distant star ever observed, with light dating back nearly to the beginning ...

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

Dark matter, one of the Universe’s greatest mysteries, may have been born blazing hot instead of cold and sluggish as ...

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

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt aims to fly the first private space telescope by 2029. Will it pave the way for more private ...

What were galaxies like in the early universe? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as ...

Overlay of the infrared emission (black and white) with the radio emission (colour). The dark, low-mass object is located at ...

Instead, this new research suggests that black holes actually act like "cosmic seesaws," switching between these two distinct ...

A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new ...