Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

Stars are the building blocks of the universe, yet their arrangement within massive galaxies remains one of astronomy’s great enigmas. Most stars today are found in spheroids—dense, bulging regions ...

Protogalaxies as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope (NASA via Courthouse News). (CN) — When astronomers started looking at new images of the deep universe obtained from the James Webb Space ...

The first generation of stars transformed the universe. Inside their cores, simple hydrogen and helium fused into a rainbow of elements. When these stars died, they exploded and sent these new ...

When did life as we know it first emerge in the universe? We don’t know for sure, but the answer is inextricably linked to the moment when water first materialized in the cosmos — and new simulations ...

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Some of the universe’s most massive galaxies may have formed billions of years earlier than current scientific models predict, according to surprising new research led by ...

The first life-forms capable of evolution could have appeared just moments after the Big Bang, a physicist explains. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) once hypothesized that the universe began on April 27, 4977 B.C., according to History.com. The Big Bang theory did not develop until the 20th century, ...

The first life-forms capable of evolution could have appeared just moments after the Big Bang, a physicist explains. Life has found a home on Earth for around 4 billion years. That's a significant ...