There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...
NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...
A s the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to peer into the origins of our universe, it’s delivering a steady stream ...
A small group of young researchers at the Cosmic Dawn Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have, through ...
The coldest and densest molecular gas clouds in the interstellar medium can have temperatures of 10 K (-505 °F/-263 °C), ...
Primordial nucleosynthesis during the early universe generated hydrogen, helium, and minor lithium-7 before the cosmos cooled, halting further fusion. Stellar interiors synthesize elements up to iron ...
A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9.” ...
Molecules containing noble gases shouldn’t exist. By definition, these chemical elements — helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon — are the party poopers of the periodic table, huddling in the ...
Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a key turning point in the universe’s development, known as the Cosmic Dawn.
The interactive online map, created using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, details some 800,000 galaxies across a vast cosmic distance. Scrolling and zooming in can take users some 13.5 ...
New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, ...
Scientists are a step closer to solving one of the universe's biggest mysteries as new research finds evidence that two of ...