A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that may have sparked extraterrestrial life in the very first galaxies.
Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby ...
Early data of “little red dots,” or LRDs, from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appeared to suggest the presence of galaxies too massive to exist in our modern cosmological models.
An international team of astronomers has captured the most detailed image ever of a cosmic filament, a vast structure of gas ...
After hundreds of hours of observations, researchers captured a highly detailed image of a long filament of the "cosmic web" ...
Astronomers have discovered a massive, double-lobed radio jet stretching 200,000 light-years from a quasar that existed when ...
While radio jets are relatively common in the nearby Universe, they have been elusive in the early Universe. This is partly ...
The mystery of the Hubble tension has deepened with the startling finding that the Coma Cluster of galaxies is 38 million light-years closer than it should be. In recent years, trouble has been ...