astronomy

How the Islamic calendar is linked to the lunar cycle

Little ‘hurricanes’ that form in the discs of gas and dust around young stars can be used to study certain aspects of planet formation, even for...

New findings confirm that JWST has surpassed the Hubble telescope in its ability to observe the early Universe

Researchers have been able to make some key determinations about the first galaxies to exist, in one of the first astrophysical studies of the period...

Astrophysicists say that cosmic inflation – a point in the Universe’s infancy when space-time expanded exponentially, and what physicists really...

Astronomers have observed directly for the first time how intense light from stars can ‘push’ matter. Researchers from the universities of Cambridge...

A team of astronomers has developed a method that will allow them to ‘see’ through the fog of the early Universe and detect light from the first...

One of the most distant known galaxies, observed in the very earliest years of the Universe, appears to be rotating at less than a quarter of the...