Dava Sobel, the author of that fascinating book Longitude, quoted Galileo: “The Bible teaches us how to go to heaven, not how ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

The youngest and most metal-rich stars, such as the Sun, are called Population I. Older stars with fewer metals are ...

Young supernovas could have spread water out into the cosmos, causing planet formations earlier than originally thought.

The universe is weirder than we ever imagined! Dive into the mystery of the Big Bang’s true location and uncover what it ...

Early data of “little red dots,” or LRDs, from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appeared to suggest the presence of ...

Found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, these massive objects are upending astronomers’ timeline for how early ...

A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data from multiple surveys to compile one of the largest ...

For millions of years following the Big Bang, after the universe’s roiling soup of particles had cooled, the cosmos was a dark and boring place. There were no stars to make light. No familiar ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...