The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to ...

They found evidence that a giant elliptical galaxy may form through the rapid collapse of this infant galaxy cluster.

Discover seven unusual galaxies defying scientific predictions, from impossibly bright early universe objects to astrophysics ...

Did you know? The official average colour of the universe is known as “Cosmic latte”, a warm, creamy beige born from light ...

New radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies could have rapidly merged together in the early ...

New radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies rapidly merge together in the early universe.

Dark matter doesn’t seem to interact with the matter we can see and touch, so scientists look for it in unusual places, like ...

Two ways of measuring how fast the universe is expanding disagree, a puzzle known as the Hubble tension. Tiny magnetic fields ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was designed to look back in time and study galaxies that existed shortly after the Big ...

Imagine drifting through space in a place so empty that you wouldn’t see a single star, planet, or galaxy in any direction.

They shaped the Universe, yet the first stars ever born continue to evade the searches of astronomers like Dr Emma Chapman ...

A team of researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope has produced the most detailed map of dark matter to date.