The "afterglow" of the universe is an important piece of evidence for the Big Bang. This background radiation also provides ...

"This shocking result means that we now need to revisit the very foundations of everything we know about cosmology," said the ...

Elliptical galaxies are some of the oldest types of galaxies in the universe. They formed relatively quickly after the Big ...

Galaxies speckle the heavens like stars in a stunning new photo of the deep and distant universe.

When Lungelo Zondi first learned about stars and galaxies at primary school in South Africa, she dreamed of having a live ...

NASA has discovered the ten oldest galaxies. These galaxies offer a glimpse into the early universe. GN-z11 is the oldest, formed 400 million years after the Big Bang. UDFy-38135539 marks the ...

If dark energy is weakening, as suggested by recent results, then the cosmos is far stranger than most physicists had ...

NASA's newest space telescope, on a mission to study origins of universe, snapped incredible images of the cosmos 2 months ...

SPHEREx begins mapping the sky in infrared, exploring the universe’s origins and life’s building blocks across the Milky Way.

It was previously already known that elliptical galaxies were the first galaxies that formed in the young universe. Vast volumes of gas accumulated to give rise to hundreds of billions of stars ...