How old is the universe? Learn more about the age of the Universe, from it's explosive beginnings to how we on Earth can ...

The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented ...

JWST finds a black hole between galaxy cores, not inside either nucleus Infinity Galaxy may contain a rare black hole from direct gas collapse Galaxy’s figure-eight shape suggests a head-on galactic c ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

Hidden in the ‘Infinity Galaxy,’ a black hole floats in space where none should exist, upending old ideas about black hole birth.

They often twirl around heavier ones, like our Milky Way, as satellite dancers. The dark matter distribution of a Milky Way ...

What lies within a toe bean? According to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, mini toe beans composed of gas, dust, and stars. Since kicking off full science operations in July 2022, the James Webb Spa ...

Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge ...

Hubble’s crystal-clear look at NGC 1786—an ancient globular cluster tucked inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—pulls us 160,000 ...

NGC 1786’s mixed-age stars suggest globular clusters aren’t one-generation wonders, offering fresh clues to galaxy formation far beyond the Milky Way.

The telescope peered into a single “toe bean” of the nebula, uncovering clusters of gas, dust and young stars.