Astronomers using data from ESA's Euclid and Herschel space telescopes have confirmed that star formation has already peaked ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has potentially made a groundbreaking discovery, detecting what could be the universe’s first generation of stars, known as Population III stars. These primordial ...

A new study suggests that during a potential phase of primordial matter domination, particle interactions may have led to the formation of the universe’s first compact cosmic objects. Less than a ...

An analysis of millions of galaxies found that the universe is barreling towards what is literally a much darker future.

Look at this new radio image covered with dots, each of which is a distant galaxy! The brightest spots are galaxies that are powered by supermassive black holes and shine bright in radio light. But ...

WASHINGTON -- A half billion years of utter blackness following the Big Bang, the theoretical start of the universe, was broken by an explosion of stars bursting into life like a fireworks finale ...

“The Universe will just get colder and deader from now on,” added Douglas Scott, study author and a cosmologist at the ...

Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is already providing new insights into this question. One of the ...

A team of astrophysicists has unveiled how colossal stars thousands of times more massive than the Sun shaped the earliest star clusters and galaxies. These short-lived giants not only forged the ...

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An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

New supercomputer simulations hint that dark energy might be dynamic, not constant, subtly reshaping the Universe’s structure. The findings align with recent DESI observations, offering the strongest ...