A monster galaxy from the early universe shows that the cosmos was rich with oxygen when it was only less than 3% of its ...

In 1916, Albert Einstein discovered that his theory of general relativity predicted the existence of gravitational waves — ...

Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the ...

Pune: Anyone fascinated by the night sky full of stars has likely wondered their distance from Earth. A recent study led by ...

Professor Bhardwaj and his team have studied 40 oxygen-rich Mira stars in 18 clusters of stars in the Milky Way galaxy ...

A new kind of stellar explosion provides a novel way to probe the distant universe, according to new results published today ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists make discoveries that could alter theories about the universe's origins. Scientists at the University of Missouri "looked deep into the universe ...

The study explains the origin of hot, faint white dwarfs observed in the galaxy's outer regions, and sheds light on a rare type of supernova, known as faint Type Ia, which is important for measuring ...

For decades, scientists suspected this ion played a critical role in cooling the early cosmos, helping the first gas clouds ...

Researchers at Durham and collaborators in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) mission have proposed a bold new ...

Sifting through the noise of space is no easy task, even for astrophysicists. But a new grant from the National Science ...

A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it now.