Our universe does host life, but another one might be even better suited for life. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read ...

A telescope tasked with making the largest-ever map of the universe has confirmed a harsh, if unsurprising, truth: Nothing lasts forever — not cold November rain, or even the cosmos itself. Using a ...

An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École ...

What if everything scientists ever thought about the universe’s earliest chemical reactions was wrong? Recent tests have turned decades of theory on its head, showing that the first molecular ...

Earlier this year, Euclid—a European telescope tasked to create the largest 3D map of the universe—sent back troves of cosmic data from deep space. Astronomers have since been hard at work picking ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified an extraordinary system of five galaxies merging when the universe was only ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered an ancient galaxy named MoM-z14, offering ...

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the driving force behind creation. Their simulations show that gravity and ...

An international team of astronomers has uncovered multiple evolutionary paths for the universe's most massive galaxies. Observations of ultramassive galaxies, each containing more than 100 billion ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected the most distant galaxy ever observed, MoM-z14, offering new insight into star formation and galaxy growth in the early universe ...