The discovery comes as a surprise to scientists, as they believed the formation of such well-organized spiral galaxies took billions of years.

NASA’s Webb Telescope detects the earliest known supernova, GRB 250314A, 730 million years after the Big Bang, capturing its ...

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA is preparing to launch a megaphone-shaped observatory on a mission to better understand what happened immediately after the Big Bang that initiated the universe and to ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope may have detected the universe’s first stars, Pop III stars, in galaxy LAP1-B, offering a glimpse into cosmic history.

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy from cosmic dawn is rewriting ideas about how fast the Universe built its first galaxies.

How did the universe begin? A compact NASA space telescope that uses less power than a refrigerator is poised to chip away at that very large question. Called SPHEREx, and set for launch on a SpaceX ...

Cosmic inflation tries to describe one brief but crucial phase in the Big Bang that launched the universe onto its expansion course. Credit: Christine Daniloff / MIT / ESA / Hubble / NASA Many ...

Paul Sutter explores how ancient creation myths and modern cosmology answer the same questions, framing the Big Bang as a scientific creation story rooted in observation and theory ...

Scientists have identified a new class of cosmic explosions, dubbed "extreme nuclear transients" (ENTs), that represent the most energetic events observed in the universe, perhaps since the Big Bang ...

On March 11, NASA launched a new space telescope into orbit to explore the origins of the universe. The mission will use sophisticated software, developed at the Arizona Cosmology Lab at the ...