At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

See Percé Rock, one of Canada’s most iconic natural formations, rising from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence near the Gaspé ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking tool called Effort.jl that lets them simulate the structure of the universe using ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how galaxies formed in the early universe.

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

JWST observations show that early galaxies were chaotic, gas-filled systems rather than stable disks. Researchers from ...

Astronomers may have found the universe’s first stars formed after the Big Bang, using JWST data and gravitational lensing.

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...