Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the ...

Whether the universe will "end" at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity's cosmic ...

"We really needed the sensitivity of JWST. We also needed the 100 times magnification from gravitational lensing from a ...

In a significant stride for cosmic evolution studies, astronomers have unveiled a galaxy that is churning out stars at a ...

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

Three of the oldest stars in our universe have been discovered, and they were lurking right under our noses this whole time, and traveling in the wrong direction The heavenly bodies were detected by ...

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Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the unusual star-forming timeline of dwarf galaxy Leo P. Most small galaxies that stopped making new stars in the early universe never resumed ...

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

Astronomers discovered three of the oldest stars in the universe, and they live in our own galactic neighborhood. The stars are in the Milky Way's 'halo' -- the cloud of stars that envelopes the ...

Astronomers reanalyzed the chemical composition of three stars in the Milky Way's halo and found that they are between 12 and 13 billion years old. They may have also been stolen from other galaxies.