A recent study provides answers to three seemingly disparate yet pressing cosmic dawn puzzles. Specifically, the authors show ...

A star exploded at the dawn of time, and the James Webb Space Telescope just caught the moment the light finally reached us.

A recent study led by Colgate Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Cosmin Ilie, in collaboration with Jillian Paulin ...

Using the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT), an international team of astronomers have performed long-term photometric ...

The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about ...

Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt, uncovered a contender for one of the earliest observed spiral ...

Indian astronomers discover 'Alaknanda', an ancient spiral galaxy, using the James Webb Space Telescope, challenging current ...

Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In ...

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

Astronomers have found something the universe wasn’t supposed to have: a galaxy cluster blazing with hot gas just 1.4 billion ...

Early in the story of the universe, long before galaxies like the Milky Way were expected to take shape, astronomers have now identified a system that already looks strikingly familiar. Researchers at ...

A new study questions dark energy's role in the universe's acceleration, suggesting it may be weakening instead.