A new kind of stellar explosion provides a novel way to probe the distant universe, according to new results published today ...

Astronomers at Leiden University have detected rare isotopes of carbon and oxygen in our neighboring stars for the first time ...

In a first, scientists have recreated the formation of the first ever molecules in the universe to learn more about early ...

For decades, scientists suspected this ion played a critical role in cooling the early cosmos, helping the first gas clouds ...

A monster galaxy from the early universe shows that the cosmos was rich with oxygen when it was only less than 3% of its ...

Matter-antimatter asymmetry puzzles physicists. Learn how the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) may find answers.

A new theoretical study proposes a radical idea in the search for dark matter—using the surface of Ganymede, Jupiter’s ...

Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the ...

A team of international scientists who are part of the Cosmic Evolution Survey program (COSMOS) created and released the map of the universe Thursday, June 5. Compiled from more than 10,000 images ...

Seconds after the Big Bang, the newborn universe gave rise to the first elements—ionized forms of hydrogen and helium. These particles combined, forging helium hydride—the first ever molecule ...

"With the Big Bang, space was created and expanded, along with everything in the universe," Andrew Layden, chair of physics and astronomy at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, told Live Science.