Astronomers say a fleeting burst of energy from deep space may be the earliest supernova ever observed. The discovery is ...

While the James Webb Space Telescope provides a window into the ancient universe, SkyMapper focuses on the present by ...

A distant blast that kept shining for hours instead of seconds has forced astronomers to rethink how some of the universe’s ...

Scientists have identified a strange cosmic relic called Cloud-9 — a starless, gas-filled object dominated by dark matter.

Scientists are relatively certain that the observable universe is relatively flat, but in terms of the cosmos’s global topography, uncertainty reigns. A new study from an international scientific ...

James Webb has spotted mysterious little red dots in the early universe that may actually be hidden black holes, challenging ...

When analyzing early universe data, the Standard Model of Cosmology suggests that the universe should be more “clumpy” that ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...

Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

Astronomers use powerful telescopes, often housed at observatories, to peer into the farthest depths of our universe. To do this successfully, observatories often have to be placed at high elevations, ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with data ...