Discover seven unusual galaxies defying scientific predictions, from impossibly bright early universe objects to astrophysics ...

It’s unclear whether science as a discipline—and scientists as people—will ever be able to answer some questions definitively ...

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...

Leucippus' ancient atomic theory bears striking parallels to the modern Big Bang model showcasing his visionary perspective on cosmic origins ...

Two ways of measuring how fast the universe is expanding disagree, a puzzle known as the Hubble tension. Tiny magnetic fields ...

For a mere moment after the Big Bang, no neutrons or protons are thought to have existed. These neutral and positively charged particles, respectively, make up the center of all atoms today. But ...

Astronomers from the University of Tokyo and other institutions have utilized the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to study ...