New research explores how dark stars, powered by dark matter, could account for puzzling observations from the early universe ...

Information pervades the universe, yet means nothing. Meaning emerged when matter organized into systems that could ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new Type II supernova. The ...

Some of the most puzzling worlds in our telescopes’ catalogs may not be worlds at all, but relics from the first instants ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unexpected features in the early universe, including unusually bright galaxies, rapidly forming black holes, and compact objects that ...

For decades, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way was an invisible monster, betrayed only by the way ...

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

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

Little red dots were first observed by the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) shortly after the spacecraft began collecting ...

There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...

Mizzou scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope found unusual "platypus galaxies" that could change what we know ...

Astronomers with Hubble have spotted “Cloud‑9”, a ghostly, starless cloud of dark matter and hydrogen, a fossil relic from ...