Understanding how galaxies grow has long stood as one of astronomy’s core challenges. Over time, scientists have gathered ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Chilean Andes is one of the most powerful radio telescope ...

In the dense environment of the early universe, dark matter particles would collide with, and annihilate, each other, ...

"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...

For two decades, astronomers have wondered how supermassive black holes could exist less than a billion years after the Big ...

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope spotted huge stars leaking nitrogen in an early galaxy, hinting that such ...

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

In a field dominated by men and scarce resources, astrophysicist Manisha Dwa has carved out a path of her own. She is working to transform astronomy education in Nepal, empowering students and pushing ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power. By using custom thermal patterns, it preserves mirror shape without ...

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...