Observing this distant epoch is notoriously difficult, astronomers say. At that time, the universe was filled with a dense ...

A new theory promises to simplify our approach to the universe's earliest moments, but some cosmologists say further ...

Globular clusters like NGC 1786 are tightly packed groups of stars, often containing hundreds of thousands of stars bound ...

We’ll have telescopes in our pockets that are smarter than Hubble." The not-so-good: "AI is bringing a golden age of ...

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

Launched in 2021 after more than two decades of development, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the most powerful and advanced observatory ever created. Designed to peer deeper into space than ...

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 ...

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.