Before the cosmos lit up with stars and galaxies, the universe passed through a dark, silent era. But new findings suggest ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion ...

A faint radio "whisper" from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.

Even before the first stars lit up the Universe, the Cosmos was not the cold place most researchers once imagined. New ...

Explore the vast and mesmerizing beauty of the deep universe with our latest video, "Deep Universe: Relaxing Video from Outer ...

NASA's SPHEREx is exploring the galaxies to answer the question of where we all come from while sending back jaw-dropping ...

The early universe was already warm before reionization, revealing that the first stars did not flicker on in an icy cosmos.

On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...

Scientists found where the universe’s missing matter went. Black holes have been pushing it far away from galaxies.

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

For decades, scientists engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) have probed the galaxy for signs of artificial radio transmissions. Beginning with Project Ozma in 1960, ...