Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...

Peru's Ministry of Culture has confirmed a groundbreaking discovery that rewrites the history of ancient astronomy in the Americas. Archaeologists working at the Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex ...

LOS ANGELES — Scientists have found the most distant space object yet observed, a galaxy born just 500 million years after the Big Bang. The record-breaking discovery, reported Wednesday in the ...

When do galaxies stop forming new stars? This is what a study published today in Nature hopes to address as a team of researchers led by the Kavli Institute for Cosmology used NASA’s James Webb Space ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered yet another troubling sign that there's something very wrong with our model of the universe. Depending on which part of the universe astronomers ...

JADES-GS-z14-0, the farthest known galaxy, has oxygen, a heavier element than scientists would expect to find just 300 million years after the Big Bang. Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser illustration ...

Andina News Agency reports that archaeologist Ivan Ghezzi Solis and his colleagues have discovered traces of older structures ...

A "totally new phenomenon" has been discovered by astronomers in a strange galaxy from the dawn of time. This galaxy, named GS-NDG-9422 (9422), was discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope to have ...

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on ...

Learn more about two of the earliest reports of a total solar eclipse and corona, which were recorded in China, and solve several mysteries about our ancient Solar System.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed the dramatic dance between a supermassive black hole-powered quasar and merging galaxies less than a billion years after the Big Bang.

The first data from the telescope array promises to expose astronomers to a hitherto unseen faint universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...