If not in visible stars and galaxies, the most likely hiding place for the matter is in the dark space between galaxies.

Understanding how galaxies grow has long stood as one of astronomy’s core challenges. Over time, scientists have gathered ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered traces of colossal, short‑lived stars that blazed out in the universe’s first ...

Cosmic dawn galaxies seen by JWST reveal hidden clues about dark matter and keep rival theories about its true nature alive.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to date of the cosmos' "first steps" toward forming the first stars and ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it ...

JWST uncovers evidence of ancient “monster stars” whose extreme chemistry may explain the origins of early supermassive black ...

Depending on how you look at it, the universe might not have an "end," after all. Whether the universe will "end" at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity's ...

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