Scientists are still trying to understand how galaxies formed and evolved from primordial gas clouds into the organized ...

Astronomers have uncovered the most promising evidence yet for the existence of dark stars—giant cosmic objects powered by ...

Dr. Caitlin Casey, an observational astronomer, has recently joined the physics department at UC Santa Barbara. She co-leads the C.O.S.M.O.S. collaboration — a project distinguished by its deep ...

Scientists think they found evidence of weird ancient stars called "dark stars" that are powered by dark matter instead of ...

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...

One fascinating discovery was the detection of vast clouds of gas extending far beyond the main star-forming regions. These ...

A groundbreaking discovery has been made by astronomers who uncovered Eos, a dark molecular cloud near Earth, using ultraviolet light detection to reveal ...

You may have seen the recently released ‘first images’ from the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile. The images are stunning and ...

By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced a new image of the Bullet Cluster, which is a titanic collision between ...

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope began its legendary mission unfolding the secrets of our universe and producing some of the ...