Jacqueline Antwi-Danso is in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H4, Canada. Before the launch of JWST, even massive quenched galaxies were ...

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The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the Universe), states ...

The history of how stars and galaxies came to be and evolved into the present day remains among the most challenging astrophysical questions to solve yet, but new research brings us closer to ...

Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be sitting inside an enormous, mysterious void—a giant cosmic hole making our universe expand faster right here than anywhere else. This unusual idea, ...

Astronomers detect a fast radio burst from 10 billion years ago, FRB 20240304B, revealing clues about the early universe.

Astronomers have long thought the universe should look generally the same in every direction, but an anomaly in the radiation ...

This video shows the habitable zone around the star HD 20794 (in green) and the trajectory of the three planets in the system. Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more ...

On 1 January 1925, US astronomer Henry Norris Russell made a startling announcement to the American Astronomical Society in Washington DC: observations by fellow astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that ...

JWST spotted carbon in a small galaxy that we see as it existed just 350 million years after the Big Bang. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

An international research team led by UCLA astrophysicists has confirmed the existence of the faintest galaxy ever seen in the early universe. The galaxy, called JD1, is one of the most distant ...

There are signs deep beneath the Pacific Ocean that an exploding star once sent cosmic rays blasting out towards Earth, and ...