Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the ...

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

How do you distinguish a galaxy from a mere cluster of stars? That's easy, right? A galaxy is a large collection of millions or billions of stars, while a star cluster only has a thousand or so. Well, ...

What if the secrets of the early universe are written not in distant galaxies, but in the gas and dust of our galactic neighbors? It is the one question that drives the recent collaborative ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star. The discovery defies current understanding of how ...

"We really needed the sensitivity of JWST. We also needed the 100 times magnification from gravitational lensing from a ...