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Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a partnership...

A major telescope upgrade has peered through to the distant Universe to reveal the spectra of a pair of galaxies 280 million light years away from...

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...

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...

Black holes with masses equivalent to millions of suns do put a brake on the birth of new stars, say astronomers. Using machine learning and three...

Cosmic dawn, when stars formed for the first time, occurred 250 million to 350 million years after the beginning of the universe, according to a new...

One of the biggest ideas in physics is the possibility that all known forces, particles, and interactions can be connected in one framework. String...

“Weather” in clusters of galaxies may explain a longstanding puzzle, according to a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge.