The young galaxy cluster existed about 12.8 billion years ago and has an estimated mass 20 trillion times that of the sun ...

Dating to only a billion years after the big bang, JADES-ID1 may be the earliest, most distant galaxy protocluster astronomers have ever seen ...

One such mystery, described in a recent paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, concerns circumbinary exoplanets—or rather, the shortage thereof—in the now 6,000+ exoplanets confirmed to date.

The James Webb Space Telescope is forcing cosmologists to redraw the schedule of the early cosmos. Structures that were ...

NASA has been forced to delay its historic mission that would send astronauts to the Moon for the first time since 1972. This historic Artemis II mission was scheduled take place as soon as ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

Immerse yourself in the exciting exploration of Dark Matter with the “Phantom of the Universe” planetarium show at Lycoming College on Friday, Feb. 6.

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the universe was very young. At that time chemistry was simple. The stars would ...

Scientists continue to push the boundaries of astronomy and cosmology, thanks to next-generation instruments that can see farther and clearer than ever before. Through these efforts, astronomers have ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground observatories. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang reported on the unveiling of Schmidt ...

"The Big Bang Theory" featured many recurring habits that defined Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons), but few were as consistent as his practice of knocking on doors three times — most often when visiting ...

The Big Bang is often imagined as an explosion from a single location, but modern cosmology shows a very different picture. Space itself expanded, meaning the universe had no center and no preferred ...