Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic ...

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Bechtol and his fellow scientists hope they can learn more about the universe than all of scientific progress has allowed in ...

Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...

Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the early universe and uncover the ...

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...

Scientists are still trying to understand how galaxies formed and evolved from primordial gas clouds into the organized ...

Scientists think they found evidence of weird ancient stars called "dark stars" that are powered by dark matter instead of ...

More information: R. Herrera-Camus et al, The ALMA-CRISTAL survey: Gas, dust, and stars in star-forming galaxies when the Universe was ∼1 Gyr old, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2025).

However, although photons of light existed since the first second after the Big Bang, they could not yet shine across the ...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to the emergence of stars marks a critical shift known as Cosmic ...

Astronomers have uncovered a colossal, searing-hot filament of gas linking four galaxy clusters in the Shapley Supercluster a ...